Health Spotlight: Game changer for bone marrow transplants
(WISH) — Each year, about 60,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia.
While there is technically no cure, the best shot of something close comes with a stem-cell donation. But, finding a donor match can be tricky.
However, in most cases, painful bone-marrow harvesting can instead be replaced by peripheral blood donation as a way to extract stem cells.
News 8 has more in Thursday night’s Health Spotlight.
This story was created from a script aired on WISH-TV. Health Spotlight is presented by Community Health Networks.
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