$200G needed after response to bone-marrow request
Photo credit: Newsday / Mahala Gaylord | Six-year-old Julianna Buttner, in pink, with her parents Mike and Lynda Buttner, and twin sister Jessica at the Stony Brook Medical Center. Julianna needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant. (Nov. 25 2009)
The bone-marrow registry that sponsored the donor-drive to find a tissue match for a 6-year-old Farmingville girl with leukemia received such an overwhelming response that it now will have to come up with more than $200,000 to have the samples tested.
DKMS Americas collected only $8,000 in monetary donations during the drive Sunday at the Farmingville Fire Station, nowhere near the amount...
Bone marrow donor drive in Farmingville
Six-year-old Julianna Buttner needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant