I have recently discovered an organization working towards wiping out blood cancer. They have made it very simple for anyone to help. You can have a kit sent to your home, simply send a swab back to them, and they will enter you in a registry of bone marrow donors. You can also send a donation of $65, which is the cost of entering one person in the registry. If this is something you have wanted to do but have just never gotten around to being tested, this is your opportunity. If you have never considered being a donor, I hope that you will give it some thought. Here are some facts that I learned by visiting the site;
6 out of 10 patients can’t find a bone marrow donor on the national registry.
Every 4 minutes, an American is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
Only 30% of all patients are able to find a compatible bone marrow donor in their family
Of course the organization was founded in an effort to save a loved one.
Delete Blood Cancer DKMS began with one family’s search for a bone marrow donor. In 1990, Peter Harf and his daughters went door-to-door in an effort to find a donor match for his wife and their mother, Mechtild Harf. They registered 68,000 donors in just one year. Sadly, Mechtild lost her battle, but in her honor, the Harfs started a bone marrow donor center (DKMS) that has since grown to be the world’s largest. We have branches in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., Poland and Spain. Globally, we have registered over 4.5 million donors and provided more than 40,000 patients with second chances at life.
Please check out the website and decide if you can help @ http://www.deletebloodcancer.org/en
Do you know someone who has been a donor, or benefited from a donation? Please leave a comment below and tell your story.
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