Brown: Brown’s Matt Shannon Is A Match In National Bone Marrow Program

[News from the FCS]

Brown University junior safety Matthew Shannon (Mayfield Heights, OH) got the call in his dorm room a week before finals that he was a perfect genetic match for a patient who desperately needed a bone marrow transplant. The odds of such a match are about 80,000 to 1. He immediately agreed to a process of endless interviews and medical testing. Now, less than a month later, Matt boarded a plane with his mother to fly from Cleveland, OH to Georgetown Medical Center in Washington D.C. to undergo the procedure on May 31, 2012 that could end up saving someone’s life.

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