Sentence examples for bone marrow match has from inspiring English sources
Dorothy's search for a life-saving bone marrow match has turned out to be far more difficult than she could have ever imagined -- a reflection of the fact that people of color are woefully under-represented on bone marrow registries throughout the world.
And the cause was an important one: because a perfect bone-marrow match has not been found, Schwartz's transplant, scheduled for mid-August, will use cord blood, her father said.
Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate, who has been fighting Leukemia since her early childhood.
Diagnosed with acute Leukemia two weeks ago, Gupta has had trouble finding a bone marrow match, primarily because of the lack of donors from the South Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Bhutani, Maldivian and Sri Lankan) community.
But as Devan's parents discovered, finding a bone marrow match can be very difficult because the genetic match has to be very close.
"There are just so many variables - the person has to be a blood match and a bone marrow match.
So the Fitzgeralds have another baby, Anna, who is genetically designed to be a bone marrow match for Kate.
Because Junebug didn't have a bone marrow match--not one match in the entire world--they used her mother's bone marrow for the transplant.
Fortunately for Devan and many others, umbilical cord blood matches don't have to be quite as close as bone marrow matches.
