Fairlawn Baby with Cancer Waits for Bone Marrow Transplant

Jeanne Konowal, a transplant nurse at Akron Children’s Hospital, discusses the new, simpler testing procedure to add potential donors to the National Marrow Donor Registry. An expanded registry could help patients like 13-month old Kairo Goode-Ransome, Fairlawn, who needs a bone marrow donor to help treat his acute myeloid leukemia. Originally aired on http://www.newsnet5.com on August 6, 2018.

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