Program News
News and stories about the UNC Lineberger Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program
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Umbilical cord blood donation saved 1-year-old boy’s life
Many people don’t realize that extracting and donating the nutrient-rich blood from the umbilical cord can save someone else’s life, as it did for 1-year-old Cole Baranowski.
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Study: People who had a blood or marrow transplant have higher risk dying from COVID-19
Marcie Riches, MD, is co-author of a paper in Lancet Haematology that found COVID-19 disease may be more harmful to people who have received a blood or marrow transplant.
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Donors credit doctors for life-saving cancer care
Doug Wilson was treated for a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma called mantle cell lymphoma. To give back to the doctors who treated his cancer, he created a fund to support their work in bone marrow transplants and the continued exploration of treatment options for mantle cell lymphoma.
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Safety measures for the bone marrow transplant clinic at the N.C. Cancer Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
We have implemented changes at the N.C. Cancer Hospital that allow us to continue to safely provide bone marrow transplants during the COVID-19 pandemic.