DEPUTIES BACK UP CO-WORKER; OFFICERS DONATE BLOOD FOR AILING SERGEANT.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Taking a break from fighting crime, deputies at the Palmdale sheriff's station rolled up their sleeves Thursday to donate blood in an effort to help one of their own. More than 30 deputies filled an American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. mobile donor station to give blood for a 41-year-old sergeant who is facing surgery for prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. . Surplus donations will be used to help restock re·stock tr.v. re·stocked, re·stock·ing, re·stocks To furnish new stock for; stock again. Verb 1. restock - stock again; "He restocked his land with pheasants" the agency's blood bank. ``We had a lot of sign-ups,'' said Deputy Paul Ullman. ``Every time I've been out, there they were busy.'' After the unidentified officer was diagnosed late last year, deputies and other Sheriff's Department staffers raised nearly $600 to send him to the City of Hope cancer clinic so that he could get a second opinion. ``We're so close at the Palmdale sheriff's station,'' said Nancy Dopirak, a law enforcement technician. ``If something happens to one of us, it affects all of us.'' In 1996, medical officials diagnosed 317,000 new cases of prostate cancer and about 41,000 men died from the disease - making it the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer fatalities among men in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , statistics show. Although Dopirak doesn't enjoy giving blood, she didn't hesitate to make the sacrifice for her co-worker. ``I hope that if I ever had to have surgery, they would come out for me too,'' Dopirak added. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Several deputies at the Palmdale sheriff's station donated blood Thursday to help a sergeant facing surgery for prostate cancer. (2--Color--Also ran in SAC Sac: see Sac and Fox. SAC - 1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Edition) Pitching in along with other department personnel, Deputy Teresa River relaxes as Danny Lemus checks her blood donation “Give blood” redirects here. For other uses, see Give blood (disambiguation). Blood donation is a process by which a blood donor voluntarily has blood drawn for storage in a blood bank, generally for subsequent use in a blood transfusion. . (3--Color) Deputy Russell Stover stover stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. , left, gives blood Thursday at an American Red Cross mobile unit parked outside the Palmdale sheriff's station. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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