Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African American patient. She had been treated for acute myeloid leukemia once before, but the fast-growing blood cancer came back. A bone marrow transplant, in which healthy donor stem cells replace a patient’s unhealthy marrow, was her best chance at survival.

A donor must have closely matched genes for human leukocyte antigens, or HLA, to be considered compatible. “The issue is that it is difficult to find a fully matched donor for minorities,” says Muneer Abidi, an oncologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, who led the patient’s care.

The team turned to Ossium Health,

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