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Home / Health News / Nalini Ambady – a Stanford professor of Indian origin succumbs to leukaemia

Nalini Ambady – a Stanford professor of Indian origin succumbs to leukaemia

Nalini Ambady, a Stanford professor of Indian origin succumbed to leukaemia on Monday.

By: Sameer Jha   | | Updated: October 30, 2013 7:23 pm
Tags: Bone marrow  Bone marrow transplant  In the news  Leukaemia  Nalini Ambady  

Nalini AmbadyNalini Ambady, a Stanford professor of Indian origin succumbed to leukaemia on Monday. Also Read - Ganesh Chaturthi 2020: 4 reasons an eco-friendly Ganesha is good for you

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An year long global campaign was conducted by her near and dear ones to find a suitable bone marrow donor. 13 matching donors were found, out of which 6 were only half matches. The remaining 7 ultimately refused to donate. Also Read - Researchers discover role of mutation in blood cancers

Nalini’s cancer was first detected in 2004, and she was treated for it. But, it recurred last November after which the campaign was launched.

Finding a suitable bone marrow donor is not an easy process, as the Nalini Ambady’s friends, students and family soon realised. Apart from the fact that those who did volunteer to donate had to be tested to check for the matching of their HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) with Nalini making it difficult for people from other ethnicities to donate most would back out at the last moment due to fear, even though, 2000 donors were registered through the campaign.

The biggest challenge a person requiring a one marrow transplant faces is the fact that the process of finding the right donor can be quite tedious, with the preliminary tests performed on antigens costing Rs 8,000. After a preliminary tests are performed, the antigens are sent to the US for high resolution testing. Even after beating all these odds, a patient may face the possibility of the donor refusing to donate despite being registered, as had happened in Nalini’s case.

What is a bone marrow transplant?

Immature stem cells in the bone marrow (soft, fatty tissue inside your bones) give rise to blood cells. These blood cells mature and enter the bloodstream. In a bone marrow transplant, damaged and destroyed bone marrow is replaced with healthy bone marrow stem cells removed from you or from a donor. (Read: Side effects of bone marrow transplant)

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Published : October 30, 2013 3:48 pm | Updated:October 30, 2013 7:23 pm
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