Posts Tagged ‘leukemia’
Kaiser patients dance the night away at Pediatric Prom in Oakland
Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center recently threw a Pediatric Prom for its patients.
Read MoreBay Area journalist Kevin Weston’s fight against rare cancer
Kevin Weston doesn’t remember doctors saying he had two weeks to live. He doesn’t remember his 44th birthday. He doesn’t remember his own wedding, though he says he’s seen the photos: Weston in a white hospital gown, eyes closed, with an extremely swollen face. In some photos he has tubes and monitors attached to his…
Read MoreLeukemia patient finds donor after two-year search; fight continues to help Cynthia Rodriguez
A two-year search for a bone marrow donor finally brought good news to Pleasanton resident Janet Liang, a leukemia patient of Asian descent who has attracted more than 20,000 potential bone marrow donors to the National Marrow Donor Program’s Be The Match registry since she was diagnosed with the condition in 2009.
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