Blog About Us Community Service Kit National Partners Results Tools Scrapbook     • Add Your Group         Cancer SUCKS     registered user login Username:   Password:         Mission:   MINORITIES ARE NEEDED AS BONE MARROW DONORS! My HEART’S CRY is to bring information to those who truly WANT to help kids dying of cancer through bone marrow donorship. I want to increase the number of minorities in the National Marrow Donor Program Registry. The challenge for Black/African American/Hispanic/Mexican/Latino/Spanish and Asian patients is that bone marrow and blood cell transplants require matching certain tissue traits of the donor and patient. Because these traits are inherited, a patient’s most likely match is someone of the same heritage. When BOTH Caucasians AND Minorities get onthe National Bone Marrow Registry and are committed to the plan, lives are SAVED! If you want more information about how YOU can save someone’s life through the unselfish act of bone marrow donation go to www.marrow.org Members:   50 Ages:   ALL AGES Website:   www.marrow.org   One comment posted   #1     06/22/06   11:50 PM   posted by CancerSucks   Here is an exerpt off of the NMDP website: “Continuing Need for Donors The NMDP has made great strides in its efforts to provide matches for more patients. Yet, even with millions of potential donors and tens of thousands of cord blood units on the Registry, patients from some racial and ethnic groups remain less likely to find a suitable match than others. In addition, some patients are unable to find a suitable match because of the rarity of their tissue traits. Some tissue traits are more likely to be found among people of a particular racial or ethnic heritage. That is why a pressing need remains for more people who identify themselves as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, or multiple-race to volunteer as donors or to donate umbilical cord blood.” www.nmdp.org On the same site, here is a link to What exactly you experience as a Bone Marrow Donor… http://www.marrow.org/DONOR/marrow_donation.html     You must be logged in to post a comment.              page 1 of 1   A Lion in the House is a co-production of Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Executive Producer Sally Jo Fifer.            blog About Us community service kit national partners results tools scrapbook            Website hosted by DONET.COM                     © 2007, A Lion in the House, LLC.