Correction."Umbilical Bounty: Cord blood cord blood n. Blood present in the umbilical vessels at the time of delivery. shows value against leukemia" (SN: 11/27/04, p. 339) stated that the first umbilical cord-blood transplant was performed in France in 1988. In fact, a cord-blood transplant was done in 1970 in a 16-year-old boy with acute lymphoblastic leukemia acute lymphoblastic leukemia n. Abbr. ALL Lymphoblastic leukemia occurring mainly in older adults, characterized by rapid onset and progression of symptoms. Also called acute lymphocytic leukemia. and reported in the March 1972 Virginia Medical Monthly. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Norman Ende, now of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey and comprises eight distinct academic units: the New Jersey Medical School, the New Jersey Dental School, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of in Newark, who with his brother Milton Ende performed the transplant, the boy's disease went into remission for a year before he died. |
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