Only days after celebrating her daughters first birthday, Dana Severson was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) at the age of 28. She was suffering from severe headaches and extreme exhaustion for several weeks beforehand, but had no idea it was due to cancer. When chemotherapy fails to stop the cancer, as it did with Dana, clinicians turn to allogeneic stem cell or bone marrow transplants to replace the patients abnormal cells with healthy cells from a matching donor. Dana received her stem cells from an anonymous donor through Be the Match, a national bone marrow and stem cell registry. More than five years after her transplant, Dana was able to meet her donor in person for the first time on the Today show. Shortly afterward, her donor traveled from Alabama with his wife to meet Danas family and her Northwestern Medicine oncologist, Jessica Altman, MD. Read more about their amazing story: buzz.mw/b0z9d_l To learn more about joining the national registry, visit the Be the Match online: bethematch.org/
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 22:27:04 +0000
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