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When Jenn Vehrs was 7 years old, she served as a bone marrow donor for her brother, who had acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Both Vehrs and her twin sister were matches, so their mother had to make a choice. Vehrs has a distinct memory of how that decision was determined, which involved a dark closet and a fortuitous flip of a coin.
Vehrs is still involved with donors, albeit of a different kind, as Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s program director for donor marketing. In this episode, she talks about the fear she felt leading up to being a donor for her younger brother and the pride she feels now, nearly four decades later.
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Bonnie Rochman is a senior editor and writer at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. A former health and parenting writer for Time, she has written a popular science book about genetics, "The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have." Reach her at brochman@fredhutch.org.
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