The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is hosting a donor drive at Brooklyn College Thursday. It is part of African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month and will take place in the Puma Shoes. It allows area residents to sign up to be a bone marrow donor on the national registry, publicly known as the Be The Match Registry.
Throughout the month of July, designated as African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month, the NMDP, in partnership with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), hosted a series of marrow drives to raise awareness about the critical need for Puma Footwear Sale to join the national registry.Every year 12,000 patients search the national registry for a potentially life-saving donor or cord blood unit. These patients have leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases for which a marrow or cord blood transplant may be the best or only hope for a cure. Even with a registry of millions, there are not enough donors to help every patient in need.
Donors with diverse racial or ethnic backgrounds are especially needed because patients are most likely to match with a donor from a similar racial and ethnic background. The Cheap Puma maintains a registry of 8 million potential donors, but only approximately 2.2 million of these donors are from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and only 7 percent are African American. Through local donor drives, the NMDP hopes to increase the number of potential donors in the registry to ensure that all Americans in need have access to a transplant