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Biren Saraiya

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Nov 2, 2005, 3:29:12 PM11/2/05

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Hi All!

For those celebrating Diwali and New Year --- Best Wishes...

As most of you know, I am an Heme/Onc Fellow and in the past couple of months, one observation about the South Asian community --

One of my attending commented - We have what he feels like a disproportionate number of Young Indian(descent) patients with Hodgkins Disease needing for Bone Marrow Transplant.

It raises a few issues:

1. What is true or really a disporportionate due to the location (we are in New Brunswick, NJ)? compared to other populations?

2. I know some of you are interested in Bone Marrow Donor Program and have worked on these drives --- how can we combine the efforts (research and increased participation)?

Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to go through some of the stuff that I have wanted to, but I still want to work with those who are interested in doing a longitudinal cohort study.