Host a Donor Drive!
A Call to African Americans to Host Bone Marrow
Drives in Family Circles, Churches, Organizations in their Communities.
Interested
in hosting a donor drive, please call The Greek Gray Leukemia
Foundation at 1- 877-SWAB-FOR
(877-792-2367).
Potential Marrow Donor
You must be between the ages of 18-60, meet the
health and weight guide-lines, fill out a consent/ registration
form, give a small blood sample and be willing to donate to any
patient in need.
Join the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)
to volunteer for Marrow and Blood Cell Donation by calling
1-800-MARROW2 to receive a Donor Registration Form or visit
www.marrow.org to
contact your local donor center associated with the National
Marrow Donor Program.
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They need to find people whose tissue
type matches their own so they can receive a life-saving marrow
or blood cell transplant.
They need to find special people-someone like you willing to
become a marrow or blood cell donor.
Please join/sign up the registry of volunteer marrow and blood
cell donors.
Volunteer NOW!!
Get involved by filling out the volunteer form.
US Donor Centers
View centers to find the closest place to you that you can register in the United States and Canada
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Each year, more
than 35,000 people are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases
such as leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell disease and other life-threatening
disorders or many, a marrow or blood cell transplant is the only
treatment option.
African Americans in need of a transplant
face the greatest challenge because of the lack of potential
African American donors.
Learn More
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society "Fighting Blood Cancers"
Fighting leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma.
www.leukemia-lymphoma.org www.themarrowfoundation.org
www.nmdp.org |
