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Manhattan mom seeks bone-marrow donors

Two years after her second pregnancy, Lisa Flynn signed herself up for sinus surgery to treat her chronic infections. When the doctor came back with her blood work, he sent her to a hematologist who diagnosed her with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow.

"We did a lot of crying that night," said Flynn, 41, of Manhattan. After two rounds of chemotherapy...

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