To honor the death of his mother from cancer, celebrated Filipino pop star Guji Lorenzana encourages Filipinos worldwide to join the Be The Match® registry to give kababayans worldwide a second chance ...
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BUZZED FOR CANCER: SHAVING HEADS FOR A CAUSE
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BUZZED FOR CANCER: SHAVING HEADS FOR A CAUSE
SAN FRANCISCO — For Allen Vu, participating in this head-shaving fundraiser for cancer patients is ...
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Digital Engagement Intern
The ideal candidate is a skilled writer who can empower the community about our passion for saving lives, as well as working for people diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases. This ...
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Blood stem cell recipient meets her life saver!
Ritzy was diagnosed with a very rare form of AML, a chromosomal fusion of 7/11, in January of 2014. The only documented cases were found in Asia, and the only documented case of survival involved a ...
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Buzzed For Cancer
Join us on Sunday, August 19th 2018, 11:00AM - 3:00PM at Trademark Sports Bar & Eatery in San Francisco to cheer on those who raised money to get their head shaved in support of leukemia and ...
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Myelofibrosis In The Spotlight: Kapil
Myelofibrosis is a serious bone marrow disorder that disrupts your body's normal production of blood cells. The result is extensive scarring in your bone marrow, leading to severe anemia, weakness, ...
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In The Spotlight – CGD (Chronic Granulomatous Disease)
Ally has a rare disease called CGD, it stands for Chronic Granulomatous Disorder. It is a life-threatening and life-limiting condition.
People with CGD can't fight bacterial or fungal infections ...
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Social Security Disability and Bone Marrow Transplants
Social Security Disability and Bone Marrow Transplants:
Learn more here: SS, disability and bone marrow transplants.
Created by Deanna Power Director of Outreach ...
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Inside KP, “Will You Marrow Me”
Mika Yoshino started Will You Marrow Me in October 2015, after being selected to present her idea at the 2015 MSSA Innovates conference. ...
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Vision Of a Volunteer – Shirley Li
The very first time I heard about AADP was at a festival, where AADP had a booth. I was offered a flyer, which I had looked at and then folded into four, filing it away in the bottom of my pocket, ...
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Vision Of A Volunteer – Mika
Mika Yoshino, director, Service Strategy & Member Experience, Kaiser Permanente, wasn’t always a bone marrow donation champion. Learning that her niece’s schoolmate, Baylor, was diagnosed with ...
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Vision Of A Volunteer – Dinesh
That is NOT a picture of me donating blood. That is a picture of me saving someone's life. Yeah, as corny as it sounds, that is what happened last year.
I donated my stem cells to save an ...
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