Welllll.... I am kind of wondering if matching folks that have cancer means we might be more likely to develop it ourselves later in life. Breast cancer has a genetic marker, when they do HLA typing it's nearly that specific...
Bob, of all people, tells me that he prefers to "think positively" on this one, and so do I, but I do kind of wonder...
Replying to my own post, in case anyone is reading later:
Per the medical director at the registry I matched through, there is no correlation between matching as a donor and a tendency to develop cancer later in life... Bob (and I) roll the same dice everyone else does.
But the cool thing: if you have a successful transplant, and the donor develops cancer later on, they can get a transplant from the original recipient, effectively getting their own marrow back. Wow!
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Bob, of all people, tells me that he prefers to "think positively" on this one, and so do I, but I do kind of wonder...
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Per the medical director at the registry I matched through, there is no correlation between matching as a donor and a tendency to develop cancer later in life... Bob (and I) roll the same dice everyone else does.
But the cool thing: if you have a successful transplant, and the donor develops cancer later on, they can get a transplant from the original recipient, effectively getting their own marrow back. Wow!
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It's gonna be a long 60 days, but at least I will be busy.
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