Becky Snell knew there was something wrong with her 5-year-old daughter, Ambie, who was having frequent, severe nosebleeds. A chromosome test revealed the shocking reality that Ambie had a rare form of myelodysplasia, a disease of the bone-marrow.
Becky decided to attack the disease head-on and aggressively treat it with a bone-marrow transplant at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. None of Ambie's five siblings was a tissue match, so under the care of Dr. Jean Sanders, she underwent a transplant using an unrelated donor.
To read on, see this issue's cover story.
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