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Oklahoma Press Releases

18 de Abril de 2018

Tulsa Woman to Urge Congress to Prioritize Childhood Cancer Research

As a child, she struggled with low platelet and red blood cell counts — an unusual combination of anemia in children. Doctors kept an eye on her health, and it would be three years before a genetic test of her bone marrow identified a duplicate chromosome that would ultimately lead to her Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS). If untreated, MDS becomes leukemia.