MC - This is great information, and I'd like to add more information about blood cancers from BeTheMatch.org. This matters because treatment and cures for some blood cancers are dependent on bone marrow or stem cell transplants, and the search for African-American donors can be extremely challenging. Far too many patients die because a donor can't be found.
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"Thousands of patients could be saved by a marrow transplant. For many patients with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma or sickle cell anemia, a marrow transplant from an unrelated donor is their best or only hope for a cure. These patients depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match. Patients are more likely to match a donor from their own race or ethnicity, yet out of a registry of millions, less than 10 percent are African American. Finding a matched donor can also be challenging because African Americans are more genetically diverse. "
More information can be found at http://www.marrow.org/
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MC - This is great information, and I'd like to add more information about blood cancers from BeTheMatch.org. This matters because treatment and cures for some blood cancers are dependent on bone marrow or stem cell transplants, and the search for African-American donors can be extremely challenging. Far too many patients die because a donor can't be found.
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"Thousands of patients could be saved by a marrow transplant. For many patients with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma or sickle cell anemia, a marrow transplant from an unrelated donor is their best or only hope for a cure. These patients depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a match. Patients are more likely to match a donor from their own race or ethnicity, yet out of a registry of millions, less than 10 percent are African American. Finding a matched donor can also be challenging because African Americans are more genetically diverse. "
More information can be found at http://www.marrow.org/
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