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September 26, 2008
Bone Marrow Donor Drive to be held at Marquette General Hospital
The Marquette General Cancer Center, in conjunction with the Michigan Community Blood Centers, will hold a Bone Marrow Donor Registry Drive on Thursday, October 9 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. in the West Lobby at Marquette General Hospital.
Registering to donate is free of charge, pain-free and simple. Donors must be between the ages of 18-60, fill out a questionnaire and do a quick swab on the inside of the mouth (no blood is drawn).
According to the National Marrow Donor Program, on any given day more than 6,000 men, women and children are searching for a life-saving donor. For many of these patients, a transplant might be the only hope of a cure.
Bone marrow transplants may represent the best hope of survival for people with life-threatening blood diseases such as aplastic anemia and some kinds of leukemia. Donors can be found within a patient’s family only about 30 percent of the time. The other 70 percent of patients need to find unrelated volunteer donors.
No appointments are necessary. To access the West Lobby at Marquette General Hospital, enter the Emergency Department entrance off of College Avenue (near the Parking Garage entrance) and park in the designated spots labeled “Bone Marrow Donor Drive Parking Only.” Once parked, follow the signs and enter through the automatic sliding doors to the West Lobby.
For more information, please call (906) 225-3500.
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