MDS and Bone Marrow Donation - 6.19.12
Experts, donors and recipients chat about donating bone marrow, as well as MDS, cancers and other reasons to give.
Welcome to the chat on all things #BoneMarrow! We'll talk about disorders and donations. Today's chat in honor of @RobinRoberts #abcDrBchat- I'll be moderating and putting out topics.T1, T2, etc. Put the T in front of your posting. Who do we have here today? #abcDrBchat
What is #Myelodysplasia? How do you donate bone #marrow? Join #abcDrBchat right now! Let's save some lives.
What is #Myelodysplasia? How do you donate bone #marrow? Join #abcDrBchat right now! Let's save some lives.
Dr Gail Roboz, Dir Leukemia Program at NY-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, here & ready for questions! #MDS #abcdrbchat
Hi, I’m Dr. Robert Soiffer, chief of Hematologic Malignancies @DanaFarber, looking forward to today’s #abcDrBchat
@abcDrBchat Dr. Chell and Dr. Navarro from @BeTheMatch. Looking forward to the discussion! #abcDrBchat
Hi! I'm Laura Gintant, I donated #marrow 2 years ago to a little boy with leukemia. #ABCDrBchat
This is Dr. Mikkael Sekeres, Director of the Leukemia Program at @ClevelandClinic representing @ASH_hematology #abcdrbchat
@BeTheMatch patient advocate, 1 yr out from bone marrow transplant successfully treated for #MDS after 2 initial cancers. #ABCDrBchat
@helpmarc Hi, I am Marc Chibnik. Looking for a donor of Jewish Ashkenazi decent for my survival. #ABCDrBchat
@helpmarc I'm Jewish Ashkenazi but my donor was Portuguese Roman Catholic. Don't limit your search too much. #abcDrBchat
Hello All - this is Dr. Azra Raza, Director of the MDS Center at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia - glad to participate! #ABCDrBChat
Carrie Gann, part of Dr. Besser's team at ABC. Looking forward to learning a lot today! #ABCDrbchat
Wish I could donate bone #marrow, but spinal rod prevents me, so I'm spreading the word! @BeTheMatch Join #abcDrBchat right now #abcDrBchat
Jonathan here, AML survivor 2.5 years out from mini-haplo bone marrow transplant #ABCDrBchat- T1 Let's get started. Focus is on conditions that might need #bonemarrow transplant.What are they? If you had a transplant, why? #abcDrBchat
- T1 Certain cancers of the #blood and #bonemarrow may need a #transplant. This includes #MDS for those at higher risk. #abcdrbchat
