The Need To Grow Bone Marrow Registries
Gift of Life is one of three registries listing unrelated bone marrow donors in the United States. Only 30 percent of patients with diseases treatable with a bone marrow transplant can find a suitable donor among their family members. The remaining 70 percent must rely on the generosity of an unrelated donor to save their lives.
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“Sang a bone upon the shore;
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When my body was alive
Found all the pleasure that life gave”:
A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind.”
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But a wild old man in the light
That can make a cat laugh, or
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Things hid in their marrow bones
From time long passed away....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)