University of Northern Iowa graduate assistant searches for the bone marrow donor for friend with leukemia.
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Article Summary:
Vicki Trent-Wilson has become an advocate of the Iowa Bone Marrow Program, a registry of potential marrow donors. A marrow type match occurs only once in 20,000 to 100,000 match attempts, the Iowa Bone Marrow Registry contains only 1,877 volunteer donors.