April is National Donate Life Month. This annual observation raises awareness about donation, encourages people to register as donors and honors those who have saved lives through the gift of donation.
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Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN) lesions were detected in a majority of healthy pancreases from deceased donors of diverse age and harbored features of pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Cancer ...
Apr 6, 2023
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All too often, people waiting for lifesaving organ transplants cannot get them. One of the biggest challenges is the lack of viable donated organs. Promising medical advances are opening the doors to more transplants and ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Medical researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, have found a way to maintain donor lung viability for transplantation. The method was even shown to return viability to transplant tissues that would ...
A cornea transplant, or keratoplasty, is an operation to replace part of the cornea with corneal tissue from a donor. The cornea is the transparent, dome-shaped surface of the eye. Light enters the eye through the cornea.
Mar 30, 2023
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The risk for cancer transmission in transplants from deceased donors with primary brain tumors is low and long-term transplant outcomes are favorable, according to a study published online March 22 in JAMA Surgery.
Mar 27, 2023
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A bone marrow transplant can be a lifesaving treatment for people with relapsed blood cancers, but a potentially lethal complication known as graft-versus-host disease put limitations on this procedure. New research from ...
Mar 24, 2023
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A new method to cure HIV—by transplanting HIV-resistant stem cells from umbilical cord blood—has yielded long-term successful results, say scientists. The approach was successfully used to treat the "New York patient," ...
Mar 16, 2023
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Cancer patients might one day benefit from being administered immune cells from healthy donors. But as things stand, receiving donor cells can cause severe or even fatal immune reactions. A researcher at ETH Zurich has now ...
Mar 16, 2023
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People with sickle cell disease who receive nonmyeloablative stem cell transplants are at greater risk for developing new tumors, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Mar 9, 2023
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