The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/leukemia/)
Marlee Pincus ’24 took a two year leave from Cornell following her diagnosis with cancer. She is now back and has a new philosophy on life: live it to the fullest.
His mother had to rescue him from the second floor before their house burned to the ground, but, because the bomb was dropped farther from its initial target, Tomonaga survived the blast.
Tai Minfei started a new life 11 years ago when she left Taiwan to marry her husband in the First Ithaca Chinese Christian Church. This Sunday, she may get a second chance at life at the very same church, which is hosting what could be a life-saving bone marrow drive for her.
Tai, who just celebrated her 40th birthday last weekend and is the mother of six-year-old twin girls, is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. Last March, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of cancer in which healthy blood cells are replaced by abnormal cells grown from the bone marrow.