M Brecker Needs Your Help

[Andrew Jones]

Now, however, Michael's blazing signature saxophone sound has been quieted.
He is a patient at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York
afflicted with MDS, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a bone marrow disorder
characterized by the underproduction of one or more types of mature blood
cells.**There is no known single cause and currently the only curative therapy
is a stem cell (bone marrow) transplant. Each year, some 20,000 new cases of
MDS are diagnosed in the U.S. alone.

In preparation for his transplant, Michael is completing his first
course of chemotherapy. But, as yet, there is no suitable donor.**The urgent
donor search - which has included his siblings and children - has not resulted
in a match.


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