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Designing an Ethical Policy for Bone Marrow Donation by Minors and Others Lacking Capacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2004

REBECCA D. PENTZ ,
KA WAH CHAN ,
JOYCE L. NEUMANN ,
RICHARD E. CHAMPLIN  and
MARTIN KORBLING
REBECCA D. PENTZ
Affiliation:
Rebecca D. Pentz, Ph.D., formerly Director of the Clinical Ethics Program at the University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, is currently a research and clinical ethics consultant based in Atlanta, Georgia
KA WAH CHAN
Affiliation:
Ka Wah Chan, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
JOYCE L. NEUMANN
Affiliation:
Joyce L. Neumann, R.N., M.S., A.O.C.N., is BMT Clinical Practice Coordinator at the University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
RICHARD E. CHAMPLIN
Affiliation:
Richard E. Champlin, M.D., is Robert C. Hickey Professor of Clinical Cancer Care and Chairperson, Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
MARTIN KORBLING
Affiliation:
Martin Korbling, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Heidelberg University Medical School in Germany
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The child was 2 years, 8 months old and weighed 25 pounds, one-fifth the weight of her mother, for whom she was to be the bone marrow donor. The mother had suffered a relapse of acute myelogenous leukemia; her physicians recommended a bone marrow transplant. The child was the closest human leukocyte antigen (HLA) match and thus the best donor candidate for her mother's transplant.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: CHILDREN AS ORGAN DONORS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 149 - 155
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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