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Meet Baby Giovanni, the toddler diagnosed with NEMO, a rare disease, and is bolstering international attention with bone marrow drives world-wide like never before.

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Read the stories of the people who benefit from your bone marrow donations.


GIOVANNI	KARINA	HRISTIANNA
Giovanni was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal disorder called NEMO when he was just months old. The life-threatening disease was only... read more	One-year-old Karina Regino was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) just three months after her uncle died of the... read more	In 2004, Mark Lanoue took his three-year-old daughter, Hristianna, to the doctor for a regularly-scheduled check-up. Hristianna had a... read more

The truth about bone marrow donation

Roughly 10,000 people in the United States are in need of a bone marrow transplant and only about 30 percent of them will find a match within their own family...

The truth about transplants

Dr. Sung-Yun Pai first met baby Giovanni in January 2006, when the Guglielmo family came to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital in Boston in need...

Giovanni's story

Giovanni was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal disorder called NEMO when he was just months old...

Karina's story

One-year-old Karina Regino was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) just three months after her uncle died of the same disease...

Hristianna's story

In 2004, Mark Lanoue took his three-year-old daughter, Hristianna, to the doctor for a regularly-scheduled check-up...

Marcia's story

My husband, Andy Williams, is a professional soccer player and is currently playing for the MLS team...

Lisa's story^NEW

On June 21, 2008, Lisa was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow....

QUIZ: The truth about donation

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See Baby Giovanni's video story

As a newborn, he was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, now he shows how the fight can be won with a simple bone marrow donation....

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