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More awareness could help to increase bone marrow donations

By Hicbd
Sat Dec 21 2013 6:01 am

"Only about 30% of patients with diseases treatable with hematopoietic cell transplantation (such as leukemia, lymphoma, anemia,certain immune and metabolic disorders) can find a suitably HLA matched donor among their family members...Because the odds that two random individuals are HLA matched exceeds one in 20,000, a registry's success depends on a large number of volunteer donors."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Marrow_Donor_Program
http://www.openideo.com/open/how-might-we-increase-the-number-of-bone-marrow-donors-to-help-save-more-lives/winners-announced/

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Volunteering Immunology / Autoimmune Diseases Cancer Bone Marrow Donations Social and Behavior Change (SBC) / Public Announcements / Campaigns / Advertising Nonprofit / NGO Idea

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