Court of Appeals of North Carolina June 6, 1995, COA94-807 (Bowlin v. Duke University)

JOHNSON, Judge.

In the Spring of 1986, plaintiff was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy and underwent chemotherapy. Her treating oncologist then referred her to Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) for participation in the bone marrow transplant program, a program allowing cancer patients to harvest their own bone marrow to be frozen and reimplanted in the case of recurrence of