Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 11, 1 November 1997 — BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT [ARTICLE]

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT

(PAGO PAGO) — The search for a bone marrow donor for a 16-year-old boy with leukemia in Ameiiean Samoa is now over. A 35-year-old woman in the United States has proved a perfect match for Jason Haleek. He is now scheduled to receive the transplant in early December at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. More than 2,000 potential donors responded from : Ameiiean Samoa, Samoa, Hawai'i and the U.S. mainland. ■ Pacific A ffairs is a compilation ofnewstories from the Pacific compiled by the news department at Hawai'i Public Radio.