TANGELA HAD been ho pital
ized 14 lim with ickle cell pain
cri e in the 18 months prior to the
transplant. During that tim , it was
determined that her 7-year-old
brother, Paul, w an excellent donor
candidate for a transplant. For uch
a transplant to be ucce ful, a earn
patible ibling usually is the best pos
sible donor.
Now a little more than a month
after the trarsplant, the doctors are
cautiously optimistic. Tangela has
done remarkably well during the im
medi te po t-transplant period,
which is considered to be the riski t
time. There is till a mall risk of
graft-versus-host disease where the
grafted bone marrow acts against the
host' ystem.
Currently, Tangela i fully
engrafted with her brother' mar
row. However, there i a remote
possibility that her own marrow will
return. It will take about a year to be
completely certain that he is fully
cured of her sickle cell di�.
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grow mor food.
Communiti grow
more self-sufficient.
Mother grow
more hopeful.
And children
grow up healthy.
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Treatm nt of ickle cell nemia
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other complications: With this type
of upponive care tarted early in
childhood, mortality has been great
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Phili
Morris
Doesnt ant· Kids
To Smoke
One of the rno t trying a pect of being a
parent i encouraging your child to make the
right choice - not ju t to follow along. In
today' complex ociety, growing up involve
more pre ures and choice than ever before.
Studie how that young people do thing ,
becau e their friend do. Smoking i one
of tho e thing .
We don't want children and teenager
to moke.
That' why the tobacco indu try i offering
a b oklet aimed at helping parent meet the
challenge of providing their children with th .
tool to re i t peer influen e. The b oklet,
"Tobacco: Helping Youth Say 0," i
de igned to keep parent and children
communicating about important i ue like
moking.
To continue it long tanding commitment
that moking i not for young people, the
tobacco indu try aloha trengthened its
marketing c de and i upporting tate
legi slation to make it tr ugher for young
p ople to buy cigarette . We are al 0 .
working with retailer for trict compliance
with tate law prohibiting ale of cigarettes
t minor.
For your free copy
f "Tobacco: Helping
Youth Say 0," return
th coup n t day.
PIULIP MORRIS
U.S.A.
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