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Article: Bone Marrow Transplants Come of Age.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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New Hope For Deadly Diseases
When Judge Morris was diagnosed with leukemia 10 years ago, doctors told him he would need a bone marrow transplant to survive.
"It gave me hope for a cure, but the big question was whether I'd ever find the right donor," says Morris, 47. The odds of finding a marrow donor in the general population are typically 1 in 20,000. Because of a rare genetic makeup, Morris' odds were 1 in a million.
For the next four and a half years, the Tulsa, Okla., resident underwent chemotherapy treatments and waited. He prepared his family for the possibility that he might not be around to see his two children grow up. "Then an angel ...