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In 2004, PASSIONS’s Pilar (Eva
Tamargo, l.) was diagnosed with
a rare blood condition and was
tended to by Eve (Tracey Ross).In 2017 on GH, Finn (Michael
Easton, l.) and Griffin (Matt
Cohen) helped Anna (Finola
Hughes) through her diagnosis
of polycythemia vera.Todd (Roger Howarth) and
Blair (Kassie DePaiva) of OLTL
were devastated when their
baby girl, Starr, was diag-
nosed with the blood disease
aplastic anemia in 1997. She
recovered thanks to a bone
marrow transplant.The diagnosis of a rare blood
disease prompted DAYS’s Jack
(Matthew Ashford) to fake his own
death in 2005, believing he was
sparing Jennifer.ALL MY CHILDREN’s J.R.
(Jacob Young) underwent
chemotherapy to treat his
leukemia in 2009.ANN LIMONGELLO/ABC; PAUL SKIPPER/JPIPAUL SKIPPER/JPI
STEVE^ FENN/ABC;^ HOWARD^ WISE/JPI