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Teacher finds helping leukemia patient truly rewarding
By Gu Jialan |
December 28, 2009, Monday
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"HELPING others is the key to happiness," said one of Jiading District's Top Ten volunteers, Anting Middle School teacher Shen Ting.
In 2006, the young teacher became a volunteer for the national hematopoietic liver cell donors database in Shanghai.
In April of this year, Shen finally completed her long-cherished wish of donating stem cells.
"As one of the post 80's generation, I have a very simple wish - enriching my life as best I can," Shen says.
She said she had experienced difficulties and setbacks in joining the database for hematopoietic liver cell donors.
In 2004, Shen, who was in college at the time, donated blood, but she was afraid of the "halo needle". As fear always comes from ignorance, she decided to wipe out her lack of knowledge in this field by seeking information on the Internet.
Soon she learned that in China nearly 1 million patients are waiting for a hematopoietic stem cell transplant and that the number of leukemia patients increases 40,000 or more each year. However, the probability of a bone marrow match (not including family membes) is only 1/400 to 1/10,000.
Accordingly, building a huge database seems to be the best way to help such patients. She also noted down the contact number of the then China Bone Marrow Bank in the phone book. Her family opposed her plan to donate stem cells.
On May 4, 2006, Shen, together with her school's other teachers passed blood tests given by Red Cross in Jiading District and officially became voluntary members of the hematopoietic stem cell donating team.
Earlier this year, the Red Cross called her, asking her to prepare as her bone marrow matched with a 18-year-old leukemia patient.
She adds that her husband's support was crucial and that her two-year-old daughter gave her a new perspective, which encouraging her to strengthen her determination to donate her stem cells.
The procedure took about a week.
In 2006, the young teacher became a volunteer for the national hematopoietic liver cell donors database in Shanghai.
In April of this year, Shen finally completed her long-cherished wish of donating stem cells.
"As one of the post 80's generation, I have a very simple wish - enriching my life as best I can," Shen says.
She said she had experienced difficulties and setbacks in joining the database for hematopoietic liver cell donors.
In 2004, Shen, who was in college at the time, donated blood, but she was afraid of the "halo needle". As fear always comes from ignorance, she decided to wipe out her lack of knowledge in this field by seeking information on the Internet.
Soon she learned that in China nearly 1 million patients are waiting for a hematopoietic stem cell transplant and that the number of leukemia patients increases 40,000 or more each year. However, the probability of a bone marrow match (not including family membes) is only 1/400 to 1/10,000.
Accordingly, building a huge database seems to be the best way to help such patients. She also noted down the contact number of the then China Bone Marrow Bank in the phone book. Her family opposed her plan to donate stem cells.
On May 4, 2006, Shen, together with her school's other teachers passed blood tests given by Red Cross in Jiading District and officially became voluntary members of the hematopoietic stem cell donating team.
Earlier this year, the Red Cross called her, asking her to prepare as her bone marrow matched with a 18-year-old leukemia patient.
She adds that her husband's support was crucial and that her two-year-old daughter gave her a new perspective, which encouraging her to strengthen her determination to donate her stem cells.
The procedure took about a week.
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