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Article: Seeking donor for LI resident: Bone marrow drive tomorrow seeks those of Eastern European Jewish ancestry for woman with leukemia.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2006
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Byline: Britney Tabor
Aug. 10--Lindsey Brass was making plans for graduating from Yeshiva University Law School in Manhattan in April 2005, when her life changed forever.
Three weeks shy of commencement ceremonies, Brass, 26, suddenly became ill and was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
For more than a year, the North Babylon resident has been in and out of hospitals, undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The cancer has now spread to her brain and spine, but she continues to stay upbeat and hopeful.
"She's been brave and optimistic," said Brass' friend Rebecca Benghiat. "She's taken everything in her personality and ...