TRANSPLANT GIVES TSONGAS MARROW FROM TWIN SISTER.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Former Sen. Paul Tsongas Paul Efthemios Tsongas (IPA pronunciation: ['sɑŋgəs]) (February 14, 1941 – January 18, 1997) was a Presidential candidate, a United States Senator and Representative, and local politician from Massachusetts of Massachusetts underwent a bone marrow transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. at a hospital in Boston this week because of a complication of the cancer therapy he has received intermittently for a decade, according to someone familiar with his case. A twin sister, Thaleia Schlesinger, donated the marrow for the 55-year-old Tsongas, who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. Officials of the hospital, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said that at the request of Tsongas and his family, they would not comment yet. The marrow transplant was the second for Tsongas. The first, an experimental transplant in 1986, was intended to cure a type of lymph system Lymph System When sickness or infection invades the body, the immune system is the first line of defense. A big part of that defense is the lymph system. Lymph is carried through the body by lymph vessels that have valves and muscles to help move the fluid. cancer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. But it failed. |
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