And remaining money in the foundation set up in her name has since been used to support bone marrow and stem cell drives for more than a dozen other people. Neither Phillipa nor Gary nor Elizabeth’s brother Michael were suitable matches for a bone marrow donation. But that meant people had to put their names on the bone marrow registry. To treat it, damaged bone marrow is destroyed, then replaced by a donor’s healthy marrow. Matching donors provide marrow through a process in which doctors stick a needle into the donor’s pelvic bone to draw the jellylike bone marrow out.

Source: thestar November 02, 2017 09:56 UTC