Oncology nurse Minal Patel performs a blood transfusion on a sickle cell disease patient at the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, as Dr. Biree Andemariam, center, looks on.

Oncology nurse Minal Patel performs a blood transfusion on a sickle cell disease patient at the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, as Dr. Biree Andemariam, center, looks on. The patient, Chad Bruce, now 25, has needed blood transfusions every three weeks since he was seven. Photo by Chris DeFrancesco