{"id":27988,"date":"2013-02-03T04:19:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27988"},"modified":"2013-02-03T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:10:19","slug":"mixed-race-blood-bone-marrow-donors-needed-to-save-gen-y-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27988","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Race Blood, Bone Marrow Donors Needed To Save Gen Y Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2013\/01\/31\/mixed-race-blood-marrow-donors-gen-y-millennials_n_2570078.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Race Blood, Bone Marrow Donors Needed To Save Gen Y Lives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post-Canada<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-31<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:Andree.lau@huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andree Lau<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Lourdess Sumners\u2019 most vivid memories of her\u00a0childhood battle with cancer was pining for real food while hooked up to a feeding tube and watching The Food Channel on TV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was horrible. I hated it,&#8221; recalls the now 14-year-old from her home in Duncan, B.C. &#8220;That would make me even more hungry. And I would draw pictures of sausages and hamburgers, whatever I felt hungry for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For her parents, that period was highlighted by the distressing and ultimately futile search for a bone marrow donor for their middle daughter, hampered mainly because she happens to be part of the fastest growing demographic in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Sumners, whose mother is Filipino and father is Caucasian, is among the more than 340,000 Canadian children growing up in a mixed-race family.<\/p>\n<p>Only about four per cent of Canada\u2019s couples are made up of people from different ethnic backgrounds \u2014 but they\u2019re growing five times faster than other unions, according to data from the 2006 census.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada said mixed couples were most common among Canadians aged 25 to 34, followed by those aged 15 to 24 \u2014 a cohort that encompasses Generation Y, which generally refers to young adults born after 1980 (also known as millennials).<\/p>\n<p>What hasn\u2019t kept up with the growing population of mixed-race children is the registry of stem cell and marrow donors from blended ethnicities \u2014 donors that Sumners needed. She required a bone marrow transplant to fight acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn\u2019t even a consideration in my mind that finding bone marrow would be an issue,&#8221; says Orlando Sumners, Lourdess\u2019 father. &#8220;There\u2019s such a desperate need for mixed-race people on the registry &#8230; [but] most mixed-race adults wouldn\u2019t have a clue what we\u2019re talking about.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2013\/01\/31\/mixed-race-blood-marrow-donors-gen-y-millennials_n_2570078.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Race Blood, Bone Marrow Donors Needed To Save Gen Y Lives The Huffington Post-Canada 2013-01-31 Andree Lau One of Lourdess Sumners\u2019 most vivid memories of her\u00a0childhood battle with cancer was pining for real food while hooked up to a feeding tube and watching The Food Channel on TV. &#8220;It was horrible. I hated it,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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":[13549,13550,13551],"class_list":["post-27988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-andree-lau","tag-huffington-post-canada","tag-the-huffington-post-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988","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=27988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}