Mixed-race heritage complicates stem cell search

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Mixed-race heritage complicates stem cell search

Radio Canada International
2015-08-24

Lynn Desjardins

A 19-year-old woman with cancer is having trouble finding a stem cell donor because of her mixed aboriginal and Irish roots. Rosalie Lirette Gilbert was diagnosed on June 29 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia—a cancer of the blood and bone marrow….

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