Mesa school psychologist Scott Nelson plans to complete a 13.1-mile hand bicycle event 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 16 at Ahwatukee YMCA to raise awareness of bone marrow transplants.

A bone marrow transplant center in Phoenix is moving to Gilbert.

Doctors seem to have found a way to make bone marrow transplants safer and more effective against blood cancers like leukemia, an achievement that offers new hope for people over 50 in particular.

After the better part of a year battling leukemia and living in a hospital, an 8-year-old Chandler girl is finally going home — thanks in no small part to the support of the East Valley community that’s been rallying around her, and a lifesaving gift from her brother.

Candy in hand, following a monkey wearing a dress, 10-year-old Sa'Preeme Williams traveled all the way from Avondale with his family Saturday to help get people in Mesa's Fiesta Mall to register for the National Marrow Donor Program.

Gethsemane Lutheran Church & School will host a bone marrow drive 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the church café, located at 1035 E. Guadalupe Road, Tempe.

NEW YORK - Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez is using her starpower to rally support for a fellow Latina who is suffering from blood cancer. Lopez, 36, is urging Hispanics in New York City to donate blood marrow to help Janet Ovalles, a 29-year-old of Dominican descent who needs a transplant from a matching donor to survive.

It is easier than ever to help someone with a life-threatening illness such as lymphoma or leukemia.

It is easier than ever to help someone with a life-threatening illness such as lymphoma or leukemia.

A man whose life depended on finding a bone marrow donor of Greek ancestry has died despite finding a match for a transplant.

Families of young people who need blood and bone marrow transplants will soon be spared the 120-mile journey down Interstate 10 to Tucson for treatment.

Kelly Satter Anderson, 42, needs a bone marrow transplant.

Kelly Satter Anderson, 42, needs a bone marrow transplant.

December 3, 2004

At 79, Robert Pannell wasn’t going to let bone marrow disease end his life or his golf game. So when his health insurer refused to pay for a bone marrow transplant, he fought back and won.

Five years ago when Sherry Behrens was at her lowest point, she felt all alone.

November 5, 2004

LYON, France - As she held the mirror up to her new face, the woman looked at her reflection. She paused for a moment. Unable to speak because of the breathing tube in her throat, she wrote a note, "Merci." Thank you.

A Phoenix man awaiting a bone-marrow transplant got good news Friday — word of two donors for possible matches.

Life or death consequences for dozens of Arizonans are butting up against the state's budget woes as legislators debate the elimination last fall of Medicaid coverage for some transplants - even as they consider additional health care cuts.

Haley Knutsen is scheduled to be taken to yet another hospital today to be evaluated for a liver transplant she desperately needs.

A second person denied transplant coverage by Arizona under a state budget cut has died, with this death "most likely" resulting from the coverage reduction, a Tucson hospital said Wednesday.

Chandler High School assistant principal Chris Knutsen reached the cap of his medical insurance policy last week and now must wait in limbo as his daughter’s life wanes.

Chandler High School assistant principal Chris Knutsen reached the cap of his medical insurance policy last week and now must wait in limbo as his daughter’s life wanes.