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Marrow Donors

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Senator Carl Levin's office
located Mr. Cohen's
biological mother after fin-
ding her social security
number. The mother was
told of her son's medical
condition in a letter, but she
has not responded.
In the meantime, doctors
at Harper Hospital are sear-
ching the National Bone
Marrow Registry, which
holds the records of more
than 100,000 potential bone
marrow donors. The chances
of finding an unrelated do-
nor are one in 20,000.
Seventy people in the na-
tional registry match four
out of six of Mr. Cohen's
tissue type factors. A perfect
donor would match all six
factors.
The long process of testing
those 70 potential donors to
see if they match the fifth
and sixth tissue type factor
has begun, Ehrlich said.
A donor could be found any
day, Ms. Ehrlich said, or it
could take months and lots
of money. Each test costs
$300 and the Ehrlichs have
paid Harper Hospital $5,000
to test the first 16 donors.
Tests of all 70 will total
$21,000. There is no guar-
antee that a match will be
found in this group.

While insurance costs pay
Mr. Cohen's medical bills, it
will not • pay for the donor
search. To help defray the
cost, Ms. Ehrlich's friends
have held several fund-
raisers including candy

sales, rummage sales, and a
reception at the Southfield
Sheraton Hotel in early
June. The latest fund-raiser
is a car wash which will be
held at 11 a.m. Aug. 19 at
Southfield-Lathrup High
School. Love Inc., a group of
young people who are devel-
opmentally disabled, will
wash cars for $3 and vans for
$5.
The family has also receiv-
ed help from Allison Atlas,
the 21-year-old Jewish
Maryland woman with
leukemia whose search for a
donor attracted world-wide
attention, Ms. Ehrlich said.
The Atlas family had agreed
to pay for a bone marrow
drive to find a compatible
donor for Mr. Cohen, but
canceled a week before the
event when the money ran
out.
A discretionary fund in
Mr. Cohen's name has been
established by Rabbi Martin
Berman of Congregation
Beth Achim. So far, $18,000
has been raised for Mr.
Cohen.
Now that he is in remis-
sion, Mr. Cohen is feeling
better, Ms. Ehrlich said.
"He goes out with friends a
few nights a week, and is
starting to play his guitar,"
Ms. Ehrlich said. "He's
become an expert on
Nintendo and has started to
write poetry."
While he has his ups and
downs, "the busier he is with
friends calling and going
out, the happier he is." ❑

Allison Atlas Receives
Bone Marrow Transplant

TZVI DOLE

Special to The Jewish News

A

llison Atlas, a 21-year
old Jewish leukemia
patient who has made
a desperate worldwide sear-
ch for a compatible bone
marrow donor, received a
transplant from her mother
on August 9.
The intravenous
transplant at the Fred Hut-
chinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle, Wash.,
came eight days after Miss
Atlas began chemotherapy
treatment to destroy the
cancerous tissue. Miss Atlas'
immediate family, from
Bethesda, Md., is with her in
Seattle.
More than 50,000 people in
the United States, Canada,
Israel, and South Africa
have had their blood tested.

Tzvi Dole is a staff reporter at
our sister newspaper, the
Baltimore Jewish Times.

Allison Atlas is recovering from a
bone marrow transplant.

Because Miss Atlas' condi-
tion was worsening, the doc-
tors urged the family to use
bone marrow from Arlene
Atlas, Allison's mother.
Although the tissue of the
mother and daughter is not
identical — only four of the
six antigens match — doc-
tors thought a transplant
might work. ❑