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Justice in Oakland County!
The Results Are In
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Potential donors should
know soon if they are a
bone-marrow match.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
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f you are wondering if the blood
you gave at a massive tissue
typing drive could be a match
for someone in immediate need
of a bone-marrow transplant, the
wait is over.
That is the word from the De-
troit donor center for the Nation-
al Marrow Donor Program.
Several tissue typing drives for
different individuals were held in
the Detroit area during the month
of June. The June drives netted
26 potential donors, all of whom
have been notified. Further test-
ing on those individuals will re-
veal if they are perfect matches; it
is then up to the potential donor
to give the go-ahead for harvest-
ing the marrow.
Since donors are not segregat-
ed by the drive they attend, it is
impossible to tell if a match was
made from the June 22-23 Match
For Life event.
Originally, a spokesperson for
the National Marrow Donor Pro-
gram said the process of identi-
fying potential donors would take
two weeks. But that time has
stretched to just under the 31 days
required by a national guideline.
\_ , The reason for the delay is attrib-
/---- uted to the large turnout, the time
it has taken to process the blood
samples and the addition of those
results to the national list.
In the meantime, the two chil-
dren for whom the drive was held
are holding their own against the
diseases they have.
Coby Levy, a 3-year-old Tea-
neck, N.J., b _ oy with relatives in
the Detroit area, has not had a
change in the status of the rare ge-
netic disorder which afflicts him.
"He is doing OK He hasn't got-
ten any better and he hasn't
gotten any worse," said his grand-
mother, Ruth Levi of Oak Park.
Mrs. Levi said his stability has
bought him time to wait for a per-
fect match to be found. In addi-
tion, his parents are investigating
other options, including a trans-
fusion of umbilical cord blood.
Mrs. Levi was impressed by the
turnout of the members of the
community for children many of
them had never met.
'We are very grateful," she said,
adding that now more people
know about Coby's plight. "People
ask me how he is doing all of the
. time. I just tell them nothing has
changed."
For Lauren Cohn, a 4-year-old
Huntington Woods resident with
\--- acute lymphocytic leukemia, there
has also been no change.
"She is doing OK," said her
mother, Kathy Cantor Cohn. El
VOTE for DAVE GORCYCA
as your next
OAKLAND COUNTY PROSECUTOR
Look at Thompson's failed trial record. . .
Percent Of
Felons
Found
Not Guilty
As Charged
45%
43%
43%
51%
53%
49%
41%
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
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Source: Oakland County Jury Clerk's Office
DAVE GORCYCA Has The Experience
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Former Prosecuting Attorney
Royal Oak City Commissioner
Former Police Academy Instructor
Member: Crime Prevention Council
Member: Oakland County Law Enforcement Association
Member: Prosecuting Attorney's Association of Mich.
Member: National District Attorney's Association
Volunteer: Free Legal Service to the Women's Survival
Center for Abused and Battered Women
Thompson's Administration has:
Dave Gorcyca
"The Right Man At The Right Time"
for TOUGH JUSTICE
✓ Cost taxpayers over one million dollars in law suits!
✓ Wasted millions prosecuting Kevorkian!
✓ Compared Assisted Suicide to the Holocaust!
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