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"They tried something new and took a long-shot and it worked."

~ Dave Stahl

"Patient Dave Stahl as an adult", MPR News

Finding a bone marrow donor, something very limited just decades ago, is a simpler, and typically quicker, process today.

In the United States, more than 22 million potential bone marrow donors are registered. More than 300,000 cord blood units are registered as well. More than one million bone marrow transplants have occurred worldwide.

“Back in those days it was very common for people to say if a child has a very severe disease there's nothing that can be done about it. And the attitude amongst my colleagues here was, 'No. We should be trying new things. We should be doing things we can to cure these diseases.'"

~ Dr. John Kersey

Ling-ling, the 13-year-old recipient of Hong Kong's first paediatic bone-marrow transpant, SCMP

“Help at Hand for Leukemia Patients” ran the headline in the South China Morning Post on October 19, 1989. The first bone-marrow transplant service at Queen Mary Hospital, in Pok Fu Lam was introduced.

“We’re at the beginning of new types of therapies in which patients are given cells using novel techniques."

~ Dr. Mark Juckett