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IDF Soldier’s Bone Marrow Donation Saves Life of Massachusetts Doctor
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The Ezer Mizion Cancer Center in Petah Tikvah is the sixth-largest registry in the world, encompassing a sample size of 1,300,000 potential stem cell donors.
A lone IDF soldier – one that has no immediate family in Israel – gave a Massachusetts doctor a new lease on life with a bone marrow donation.
Maya Ben Yitzhak, who hails from Chicago, decided to register with Ezer Mizion’s bone marrow registry, which required a simple scraping of the inside of her cheek with a swab.
Ben Yitzhak was surprised when, just a year later, the organization informed her that her bone marrow was a match for a 64-year-old Jewish woman in the United States.
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