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| Two leukemia patients in E. China receive free marrow donation from Taiwan |
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| Vendredi, 23 Décembre 2005 08:00 | |||
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There are no translations available. People’s Daily Two leukemia patients in east China's Zhejiang Province have received a free donation of 2,400 ml of life-saving marrow from the country's island province of Taiwan, sources said Thursday. The donated marrow was transplanted Tuesday evening into the bodies of the two patients, one of whom is 38 years old and the other 40 years old. According to sources with the Zhejiang University No.1 Hospital in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province, both patients are from Zhejiang's Ningbo City. If the blood-producing stem cells of the marrow donators are able to grow normally inside the bodies of the two leukemia patients 20 days or so after planting, then the operation will be considered a success, the source said. The hospital, the only one capable of doing this kind of operation in the province, has successfully transplanted marrow for 124 patients, the source said. The donated marrow came from the Tzu Chi Marrow Center located in Hualien City of Taiwan. It is the only marrow bank in the world that relies wholly on public donations for its existence. The center has offered non-consanguineous, transplanting marrow to the patients in Zhejiang on 119 occasions, the Zhejiang hospital source said. The two Ningbo patients registered at the hospital in August this year and found their matches soon after the hospital contacted the Tzu Chi center in Taiwan, the source said. The donation was free and the patients just need to pay the expenses involved in medical checks and in confirming the donators' blood samples, as well as the costs of extracting marrow from donators and transporting it, the source said.
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| Mise à jour le Samedi, 24 Décembre 2005 09:01 |