{"id":23947,"date":"2012-06-25T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23947"},"modified":"2017-01-26T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:26:15","slug":"mixed-race-fastest-growing-demographic-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23947","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe Province<\/a>
\nVancouver, British Columbia
\n2012-06-24<\/p>\n

Sam Cooper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

…And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally<\/em><\/p>\n

Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She’s a happy teen who liberally sprinkles her speech with giggles and words like, “Gee . . . Woo-hoo! . . . No big whup.”<\/p>\n

You’d never know she’s spent half her young life facing death, with survival chances many times lower than other children, because of her diverse genetic makeup.<\/p>\n

She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow, in 2006. She endured eight months of chemotherapy, seemed to beat the fast-growing cancer, but relapsed.<\/p>\n

The doctors at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver<\/a> said her last hope was a life-saving bone marrow transplant.<\/p>\n

The medical process is harrowing enough for any child. But with a Filipino and Caucasian background, doctors could not find Lourdess a bone marrow match, after several worldwide searches.<\/p>\n

As a child of mixed race\u2014the fastest growing demographic in Canada, and especially B.C.\u2014she is representative of a demographic group that is disadvantaged, in terms of medical blood work…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada The Province Vancouver, British Columbia 2012-06-24 Sam Cooper …And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan. She’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,2039,8],"tags":[5682,11085,11084,11083],"class_list":["post-23947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-jeff-chiba-stearns","tag-lourdess-sumners","tag-sam-cooper","tag-the-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51296,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions\/51296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}