INSPIRATION OF DRIVE FOR DONORS DIES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 10, 1993                   TAG: 9303100305
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BALTIMORE                                LENGTH: Short
INSPIRATION OF DRIVE FOR DONORS DIES
Demetria Campbell, whose need for a bone marrow transplant spurred a campaign to recruit black donors, has died of complications from leukemia. She was 21.
She died Sunday at Sinai Hospital, her family said.
Campbell was working on a business degree at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., when she was diagnosed with leukemia in August 1991.
When chemotherapy failed, doctors recommended a bone marrow transplant. But no compatible donor could be found through a national registry of potential donors. Only 31,000 of the 750,000 donors listed were black.
Campbell's parents launched a campaign to recruit black donors with the help of such groups as the American Red Cross, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Marrow Donor Program and celebrities like Baltimore-born actor Charles Dutton, star of Fox TV's "Roc," who appeared at the campaign kickoff in December.
The campaign added several hundred black donors to the registry, but apparently did not find a match for Campbell, Tory Leonard, a spokeswoman for the state health department, said Monday.
Services were to be held Thursday. Campbell is survived by her parents, two sisters, a brother, her maternal grandparents and paternal grandmother.
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB