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Every three minutes in the United States, someone is diagnosed with a blood disease like aplastic anemia; immunodeficiencies like Severe Combined Immunodeficiency; and cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
Leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, is the most common cancer in children and teens, and most children are diagnosed between the ages of three and five. By the end of 2023, 185,000 people in the U.S. will have been diagnosed with blood cancer alone.
Powerful, lifesaving, treatments for these cancers and disorders are bone marrow and stem cell transplants. These types of transplants are administered after chemotherapy and radiation destroy a patient’s diseased cells and malfunctioning bone marrow so that they can be replaced with healthy, compatible cells. Marrow and stem cell transplants are administered into the bloodstream and do not require surgery.
