Chennai-based Aditya Dinesh’s decision to register with DATRI, a blood stem cell donor registry in the city, and his subsequent decision to donate his bone marrow twice in 2016 did a miracle in a four-year-old boy’s life in Bengaluru. The kid was one of the lucky few to find a match. Unfortunately, many patients don’t. Since World Marrow Donors Day falls on the third Saturday every September, which is today, CE looks at the importance of bone marrow donation, and what it means to someone in a battle for life against death.

“Stem cell therapy uses the potential of cells to regenerate and repair damaged tissues. For more than 30 years, stem cell therapy has been used successfully for conditions like leukaemia (blood cancer), sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia; immuno deficiency disorders like Whiskott Aldrich Syndrome, metabolic disorders, and even cancers like multiple myeloma, neuroblastoma and over 100 other diseases,” says Dr Kasi Vishwanathan, Meenakshi Mission hospital, Madurai....Read more

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