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Airman provides vitality through marrow donation
By Airman 1st Class Chris Drzazgowski
355th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
TUCSON, Ariz. — One out of 540 members of the C.W. Bill Young U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Chris Drzazgowski
Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program ever proceeds to donate
marrow or stem cells. However, an Airman from Schriever Air Force Tech. Sgt. Bruce Davis, 527th Space Aggressor Squadron radio frequency transmission supervisor,
Base, Colorado, recently had the opportunity to be one of those donors. shakes hands with Dr. Faiz Anwer, medical oncologist, at Banner-University Medical Center in Tucson,
Ariz., July 2015. Anwer was the lead doctor during Davis’ bone marrow collection procedure, which
In the early 2000s, Tech. Sgt. Bruce Davis was stationed at Royal Air was facilitated by the C.W. Bill Young Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program.
Force Mildenhall, England, when he decided to register to become a
potential marrow donor. It wasn’t until earlier this year that Davis was
notified he was a match for a patient in need of a bone marrow transplant.
“I went to the nearest hospital at Peterson AFB, where they drew blood,
tested it all, and it came back with good results,” Davis said. “The next
step was to come back (to Tucson so) they could do more tests. They did
a chest X-ray, drew more blood to (perform) a lot more lab work, and
then scheduled the extraction. It goes pretty quick when they find out
you’re a good match.”
After some final testing, Davis was in his hospital bed rolling down the
fluorescently-lit hallway to the operating room where the marrow extrac-
tion was scheduled to take place. Davis was administered an anesthetic
and moments later, he laid on the bed motionless. Doctors worked quickly
to insert a breathing tube into his mouth so he could easily breathe while
lying on his stomach.
The bone marrow was harvested from Davis’ hips using two needles
placed in the left and right sides of his lower back. With the needles serv-
ing as taps, the doctors used syringes to extract about 1.5 liters of rich
marrow, which is five percent or less of the donor’s total marrow cells,
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