Oklahoma legislator’s donation helps save Ariz. woman’s life

 
BY SONYA COLBERG | Modified: December 11, 2010 at 1:10 am | Published: December 11, 2010   

Cancer had a hold on Patrice Tillman for nearly two years when doctors came to her with what could have been life-threatening news.

“Well, we don’t have a match,” they said.

photo - Peripheral blood stem cell recipient Patrice Tillman, of Arizona, says her life was saved by donor Oklahoma Rep. Mike Shelton. PHOTO BY CHRIS LANDSBERGER, THE OKLAHOMAN
Peripheral blood stem cell recipient Patrice Tillman, of Arizona, says her life was saved by donor Oklahoma Rep. Mike Shelton. PHOTO BY CHRIS LANDSBERGER, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Dec 10Bone marrow donor meets the person he helped.

Tillman, now a healthy 31-year-old, was on her second relapse with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her first marrow treatment was with her own bone marrow. Yet the cancer snapped back six months...
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