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If i had thyroid cancer am i unable to donate bone marrow? on the website it doesn't specify thyroid cancer.
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Am not sure: Several years ago Dr. W. Lawrence at Sloan Kettering at the time began doing kidney transplants. While all needed immunosuppressive drugs. He transplanted one case from a patient who had colon Ca. The patient did not require any suppression but less than a year later he developed metastatic colon Ca from the transplant. Cancer donors including that from marrow may spread tumor.
Answered 5/1/2015
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