Home opens for bone marrow patients

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Philanthropists and children gathered Wednesday afternoon on a narrow street in Canton to open a new long-term home for children who need bone marrow transplants and their families.

The Children?s House at St. Casimir, with its brightly colored pastel facade and overstuffed couches inside, is the fifth home in the region that will provide children and their families a place to stay during lengthy hospital treatments, said Brian Morrison, founder of Believe in Tomorrow National Children?s Foundation. The latest home, however, is the first in the nation to exclusively target pediatric bone marrow patients.

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