Recently I found out about a fellow UCLA student who was diagnosed with Leukemia. I wanted to share her story to everyone to show that MANY people are effected by cancer so there is a need to have MANY people registered at bone marrow donors. Janet Lian, 22 years old, was diagnosed earlier this year with ALL, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (bi-phenotypic). She is of Chinese descent and desperately needs your help. Janet was diagnosed and treated at UCLA medical center but is now back home in the Bay area. She is currently getting chemotherapy treatments at UC San Francisco. Chinese and Asians Please Register to Help Janet Liang and many others.
Please register to help Janet and others like her. We can never have too many donors in the National Registry. You can go to www.BeTheMatch.org , www.AsianMarrow.org , or www.AADP.org to find live drives near you.
Janet Liang, 22 years old, needs YOUR help. Please help Janet and many others like her.
To learn more about Janet please visit her website to find up to date information regarding her progress at www.helpingjanet.com
Janet and I were also featured in UCLA Daily Bruin Newspaper and UCLA Pacific Ties Magazine urging UCLA students to register to become a marrow donor.
A few words from Janet:
“There’s an overwhelming amount of guilt I feel and frustration, because all I can do is keep asking and begging. That’s all I’m good for these days with no guaranteed promise of the ability to return your favors. I also understand that many of you have fruitful, promising lives/futures and are extremely busy. All I can really tell you is that I have about 3-4 months time to come up with some kind of bone marrow donor match. That is nearly impossible. The pressure is on, as my doctors and bone marrow transplant coordinator continuously remind me of the time-sensitive nature of treating this disease. If not, they’ll continue to drag it on and on, keeping me alive with one chemo round after another until I become resistant to it and there’s no other alternative except an umbilical cord transplant, which will buy more time and is currently in the research/experimental stages.”
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