VIDEO: Carlyle Robinson/Robin Roberts/MDS
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Hearing the word cancer elicits fear is most anyone.. for Good Morning America's Robin Roberts, it's a diagnosis she heard not once.. but twice. First it was breast cancer... then, a blood disease known as M-D-S. That little-known disease is one that a Chicago man is battling as we speak.. Carlyle Robinson is preparing to undergo the only known cure for M-D-S... a bone marrow transplant. One of the main challenges for MDS patients is finding the perfect bone marrow 'match'. For African Americans, that is even more difficult, given the fact that African Americans make up only 7% of the registered donor pool.
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