City of Hope Shows Outreach to Bone Marrow Transplant Survivors and Their Primary Care Doctors Can Markedly Cut Skin Cancer Risk

Experts at City of Hope®, one of the nation’s largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations, are shining a spotlight on the risk of skin cancer faced by hematopoietic cell ...
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Leukemia Survivors to Meet Their Lifesaving Stem Cell Donors at City of Hope’s Annual Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Reunion, Celebrating Program’s 50-Year Milestone

Los Angeles high school senior Vaughn Wilson and two-time cancer survivor Lynn Leiro of Alhambra, California, will meet their unrelated donors for the first time at City of Hope’s annual BMT Reunion ...

Bone marrow transplant is not a last resort for thalassemia: Doctors reveal the myths, facts and realities families often overlook

A bone marrow transplant can effectively cure thalassemia major, moving beyond traditional care methods. This life-changing ...
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Scalable education program protects transplant survivors from elevated skin cancer risk

Experts at City of Hope, one of the nation's largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations, are ...
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A 3-year-old cancer survivor served as a flower girl in her bone marrow donor's wedding

Last month, Skye Savren-McCormick got to be the flower girl in a wedding. To prepare, she practiced walking with a little basket in her living room. Even so, on the day of the wedding the 3-year-old ...
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13-year-old cancer survivor returns to pitch in All-Star game after stem cell transplant

TAMPA, Fla. - A 13-year-old baseball player returned to the mound Friday night at Bayshore Little League in Tampa after beating bone marrow cancer. Brody House was cleared to play in the All-Star ...
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Bone marrow transplant: The quiet revolution transforming India's fight against blood cancers

​Bone marrow is the body's blood factory, producing the red cells that carry oxygen, the white cells that fight infection, ...
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While spending four weeks healing from a bone marrow transplant, leukemia survivor, Michael Stigall, wrote a song on his ukulele to sing his way through recovery

Petersburg officials are moving to make a local apartment complex safer after two juveniles were killed in the span of three months. Petersburg police say a 16-year-old boy died on the scene after a ...
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Cancer Survivor, 13, Returns to All-Star Baseball Game 100 Days After Life-Saving Cell Transplant from His Brother

Brody House, a teenage baseball player, started having stomach pain last fall. After going to the doctor for blood tests, he was eventually diagnosed with bone marrow cancer. Brody, now 13, and his ...