That’s when Allie, who years earlier had opted into a bone marrow registry, got the call:Would she help save a dying stranger? Acute myeloid leukemia – a rare, fast-growing blood and bone marrow cancer originating from abnormal blood stem cells – tends to affect older adults, according to Yale Medicine. A doctor after one chemotherapy treatment told David he had a 5% chance of survival because his type of this cancer had a genetic mutation “that was really, really bad,” David recounted. Nowadays, most transplants use stem cells from donor blood – rather than bone marrow – in a much less complicated process, according to the Cleveland Clinic. “You’re a little sore, you’re a little tired, but you get to go home that night, and it’s really, really rewarding,” she recalled.

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