Beating the bone marrow match odds: ABC7 is joining GMA, who has partnered with BeTheMatch, to raise awareness of their donor registry.
- the 10th anniversary of her return to "Good Morning America" after undergoing a bone marrow transplant.It's all a part of the "One Match, Second Chance" campaign.Doctors discovered her red and white blood cells and platelets had dropped to dangerous levels.Doctors diagnosed her with severe aplastic anemia. Her immune system was attacking her bone marrow where blood cells are made.
"They checked for a 10 out of 10 match on the 'Be the Match' registry and they didn't have one," Freeman said.& Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, said due to a lack of diverse donors, the odds of finding a match for someone who is a person of color is much lower than for someone who is white."For Black Americans, or mixed-race Americans, there's less than a 10% chance of finding a donor through that registry," said Smith.
A match is based on the individual markers on the surface of white blood cells, called an HLA. A good match means a lower chance of the donor cells being rejected."Three of my sons ended up being haplo-identical matches.""How is it possible that we can do a transplant now with only a 50% match? When for the previous three decades, we required 100% match?" said Smith.
Due to advances in post-transplant drugs given at the precise time to prevent rejection. In November 2021, Freeman's son Brian became her donor. "I gave him life and he was able to give me life back, you know? And that's huge. That's wonderful," Smith said.
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