Every three to four minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer, according to Be the Match. Many will wait months or longer to find a match for a life saving donation. via robharristv
GOLDEN, Colo. — The first hint that something was not right for Aaron Crane came during one of his favorite hobbies.
Crane was initially diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, a rare blood disease in which a person’s bone marrow produces too many platelets. For some, the disease does not progress further. For others, like Crane, another diagnosis can loom later: myelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer that causes scar tissue to build up in the bone marrow.
“The first place that we look for a potential donor is a patient’s sibling,” explained Dr. Marc Schwartz, a hematologist at the UCHealth Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic. “On average, however, about 70% of patients do not have a fully matched sibling donor. So the next step is to look at an international registry for matched unrelated donors.”
“It was very intense,” Crane said. “There were very emotional moments. I would get on the phone with my folks, with my family, with Kathy, my wife, and there were times that I was crying on the phone.”
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