The artworks on display on opening night will be selected from the works of staff members of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. These funds will provide resources and support for our patients with life-threatening diseases, to help them and their families manage during the lengthy hospitalization that is necessary for each transplant. The Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program of Lucile Packard Children's Health Services is one of the nation's largest, a nationally recognized leader for innovative and specialized transplant methods. More than 300 children have received bone marrow transplants at UCSF since 1982 to combat leukemia, neuroblastoma and other cancers, and to treat certain metabolic disorders and inherited immune deficiency diseases. Over the course of a treatment that can take many months, the program's doctors, nurses and child specialists work closely with parents to care for each child and to help the family maintain as much of a normal life as possible.
Children even keep up with their schoolwork with the help of the teacher on staff.
However, fewer than half the children who have a disease which can be cured with a bone marrow transplant have an appropriate donor. Copyright 1999 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all comments and questions to the Daybreak Editor . Please contact the UCSF Web Developer for questions of a technical nature.