To all friends in USA/Canada or UK Please register as a donor in the Bone Marrow Registry. The registration is free, and just involves, signing up on the web and taking a mouth swab. If you are matched to a required person, a simple process like a blood donation will be needed. please read below and register a very close friend of mine .Omar Siddiqi, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer. His treatment requires a form of life saving therapy, called a bone marrow transplant. A bone marrow transplant can only be done from a person who matches certain genetic components as the recipient. As a South Asian, the likelihood of finding a match for omar is greatest in the South Asian community. WE ARE APPEALING TO YOU TO HELP PATIENTS LIKE OMAR SIDDIQUI BY SIGNING UP FOR THE BONE MARROW REGISTRY! The National Bone Marrow Registry is an organization that compiles all the profiles of people who register to be donors. Registration is easy - all you have to do is go to this website, and put in your information. In the USA: bethematch.org/Support-the-Cause/Donate-bone-marrow/Join-the-marrow-registry/Join-now/ In Canada: https://blood.ca/CentreApps/Internet/UW_V502_MainEngine.nsf/page/E_ubmdrPKG-intro?opendocument&CloseMenu&p=OMSplashJoin In the UK: https://blood.ca/CentreApps/Internet/UW_V502_MainEngine.nsf/page/E_ubmdrPKG-intro?opendocument&CloseMenu&p=OMSplashJoin You will be mailed a kit with a registration form and a swab. Swab the inside of your cheek (instructions provided in the kit), and mail it back in the enclosed envelope -then youre all done! Doctors then search this directory when a patient, like my brother, needs bone marrow cells. If a donor is identified as being a match, that donor goes through an additional simple screening process, followed by a process of bone marrow cell donation that is very similar to donating blood. Thank you for taking the time to read this - please register - you may be the one to save a life!
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:40:00 +0000