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“Bone marrow and cord blood transplants are a life-changing treatment for people with leukemia, lymphoma and many other diseases. For many patients, a transplant may be the best ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ and only ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ hope for a cure.
When patients learn they need a transplant, they turn first to their families to find a donor. But 70% of those patients won’t find a suitable match in their family. They depend on bone marrow or cord blood donors like you.
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) makes sure every patient has the best possible chance to receive the transplant he or she needs.
To do so, we not only recruit committed donors, we spearhead the entire donor search and matching process. Through our Registry, searching patients have access to:
– 7 million potential bone marrow donors
– 70,000 cord blood units donated by parents after their baby├óΓé¼Γäós birth
– 4 million additional donors and cord blood units, thanks to our partnerships around the world
And we are working to expand the size and diversity of our Registry every day. Families, civic, community, corporate and faith-based organizations partner with us to raise awareness about the need for donors, especially from diverse racial and ethnic communities.
Thanks to these efforts, the likelihood of finding a match has improved for patients from all racial and ethnic groups.”