Retired NYC Firefighter Loses 2nd Stem-Cell Donor
By Matt King - Times Herald Record
January 16, 2009
WARWICK — Roy Chelsen, a retired New York City firefighter with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, lost a donor for the second time earlier this month, days before he was scheduled to undergo a life-saving bone marrow stem-cell transplant.
The identity of a donor is kept secret from patients for a year, so the family does not know why the woman had to pull out at the last moment. Chelsen, 49, was diagnosed in 2005.
To learn about signing up for the national blood marrow registry, visit
www.marrow.org
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