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...minority registration in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is low, making it difficult to find a donor that matches Kuo's marrow perfectly...
Helen S. Ng, who works on Asian-American donors for the Minnesota-based NMDP, said bone-marrow drives around the country have significantly increased registration in the past few months...
Tomorrow and Wednesday, any minority student can register free of charge by taking a blood test. If a donor is found who matches Kuo's marrow type, he or she will be contacted and asked to give bone marrow...
Donation involves the extraction of bone marrow from the hip while the patient is under general or local anesthesia. Donors can go home after a few hours or rest in the hospital overnight. In a healthy individual, the body replaces the lost marrow, leaving no permanent damage...
Registration, which involves taking a blood sample, is expensive because of the cost of testing the donor's marrow type...