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aed Cross info
session set for
Morth Shore

Deana Lancaster

Bontributing Writer
ana@usnews.com

re ANETTE Finney

honed the Red Cross

cently to point out
here has been nothing
fone to encourage
msorth Shore residents

t

fap sign on as bone mar-

mw donors.

2 She made the telephone
out of concern for a fami-
ig friend, Steven Hayward.
“He’s 28, is a chartered
‘ountant and he lives in
veston. He also has Acute

phocytic Leukemia.
Por the past two and a half
mars, Hayward thought he
MapAd the. disease beaten. He
working, full time, playing
reational inockey and plan-
a trip to Spain to see his
iend, who was studying

i .
Ain: March, the results of a

a:

Pageene marrow biopsy revealed

: the: Leukemia. had
Hayward’s best

Mepance. for survival is a bone

hrrow transplant (BMT),
mt.because of his mixed her-
ge —- his mother is
anesc, his father Caucasi

o match has yet turned

Bin general, all ethnic
pnoritics are under-repre-
ated yin'.the Internationa!
egistry. Asian represen-
, in particular, is very
most 20% of all peopie
ng.a BMT are Asian,
they make up only 3% of
regisiry.
Not’.even after public
jeals: on BCTV, various
io stations, .a. dlinic and a
thon, has’ a match for
Myward= been found.
dreds of- people have
forward. as donors, but
«no luck. ”

a Now. Finney, a North

gre realtor, has brought
yward’s “cause over the
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“Our efforts are on behalf

of Stevie,” she said. “Bur the
benefit goes so far beyond
that. It’s already been ove
whelmine. They've had as
many people (sign up for the
registry) in one month as they
usually ger in one year.”

Thanks to Finney, the Red
Cross will hold a donor infor-
mation session on Monda

night at the Centennial
Theatre, 2300 Lonsdale Ave.,
at 7 p.m.

To be able to join the reg-
istry, individuals must be
between the ages of 17 and
59, in good health, atrend an
information session and have a
small sample of blood drawn
fur blood typing.

Once registered, a donor

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may wait years before making
a donation. Ir depends on a
very accurate match between
the HLA and DNA types on
and in the blood ceils.

And yes, said Finney, mak-
ing a donation can be painful.

“But if Ym called, Pi be
thrilled,” she said. “If ir was
your son, you'd want people
to come forward.”

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