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JOANNE PANG
fought a courageous battle against leukemia that started when she was eight years old and lasted twenty-one months. She might still be alive today had she received a timely marrow or cord blood transplant. |
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OUR MISSION
is to establish the Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank (NCUBB), which will be the area’s first public, non-profit cord blood bank. Unlike private cord blood banks, the NCUBB will serve anyone seeking cord blood. |
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HELP
launch the Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank by Spring 2009 with clinical partner University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Children’s Hospital by contributing to our $2.5 million fundraising effort. |
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© 2008, Joanne Pang Foundation. All rights reserved. |
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Joanne Pang 1993—2003 |
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Up to 90% of those destined to die due to the shortage of matching, transplantable bone marrow could be saved by umbilical cord blood. |