The movie revolves around a little boy who has leukemia and is waiting for a marrow transplant.

If the marrow transplants weren't so expensive, maybe we could've done something.

In some cases leukemia can be treated with chemotherapy; for other patients, a marrow transplant is the only hope.

Most patients who need marrow transplants from an unrelated person die before a donor can be found.

"For about 70 percent of patients who could benefit from a marrow transplant, there is no family donor."

About 10 to 15 percent of bone marrow transplants fail.

For them, there is no reason to take on the risk and travails of a marrow transplant.

Doctors said she had little chance of survival without a marrow transplant.

Now I get to sit around for a while to see if the marrow transplants are going to take in their synthetic matrix.

I don't mean the tourists who come for marrow transplants or heart surgery, but the Cubans.