NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The odds of finding a bone marrow match for recipients in need can be tricky, however the search is even more difficult for recipients of color. Nine-year-old Alfredo Diaz ...
A lab officer cuts a DNA fragment under UV light from an agarose gel for DNA sequencing as part of research to determine genetic mutation in a blood cancer patient. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) When ...
KANSAS CITY METRO (KCTV) - For patients with blood cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, a bone marrow transplant can be the difference between life and death. But for people of color, your chances of ...
Seattle’s Be The Match Collection Center opened up less than a year ago and is celebrating its 100th blood cell donation with an important message: More bone marrow donors of color are needed. The ...
MINNEAPOLIS — Blood donation centers like Memorial Blood Center and the Red Cross are making urgent requests and starting new initiatives to recruit more donors of color, specifically Black ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The odds of finding a bone marrow match for recipients in need can be tricky, however the search is even more difficult for recipients of color. Nine-year-old Alfredo Diaz ...
When Chrissie Brown Torres was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia called myelofibrosis in October 2020, the signs were at least a year in the making, she says. In late winter 2019, she experienced ...