Jace Trahan is a high-school senior from Duson, La. On Nov. 30, 2005, Jace was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Jace was 16 years old. By 4 a.m. the next day, Jace was admitted to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where a chemotherapy protocol was started immediately.
It’s fairly common for a patient receiving the treatment Jace was being administered to enter remission by day 19. Jace didn’t. His cancer level was still at 70 percent. A bone-marrow transplant was the next step. The difficulty with bone-marrow transplants is finding a matching donor.
Generally, parents are not a good match for their children, but luckily, Jace’s mother was a match, and the transplant was successfully completed.
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