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...Despite the claim by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) that more than 10,000 new patients each year could benefit from cord-blood stem-cell transplants, most umbilical cords currently end up as medical waste. Today, a matching donor from the national registry is found only about 25% of the time, and many patients die waiting. So far, doctors have found the most promise in cord blood for conditions such as blood cancers, leukemia and sickle-cell anemia. But last year, an ongoing study at the University of Florida showed cord-blood cells could also be effective at treating...
...recent NMDP survey showed that 95% of new mothers say had they known about public cord-blood donation, they would have donated. Says Kristi Kirkpatrick, a manager from Pittsburgh who is expecting her second child in March. "To be able to save a life with something that'd normally go in the trash?" she says. "That's not a difficult decision for anyone to make...
Mutsuko Holiman, an NMDP board member helping to run the drive, said that nearly half of potential minority donors cannot be contacted when they come up as a match with a potential recipient, often due to problems like language barriers...
Over 30,000 Americans are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases each year, but only 20 percent of registered donors are minorities, according to the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP...
Students who attend the drive will take a simple blood test; their bone marrow type will then be recorded by the NMDP...