Every day, thousands of patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases hope for a marrow donor who can make their transplant possible. Seventy percent of patients do not have a donor in their family. They depend on people like you.
Because tissue types are inherited, patients are most likely to match someone of their own race or ethnicity. People of every background are needed. Registry members from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds are especially needed, so every patient has a second chance at life.
Registry members of these backgrounds are urgently needed:
To be a match, all you need is to:
To learn more about the donation process, click here.
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Start across from the Chatham town square and run up Main Street, past Chatham's state-of-the-art high school, home of The Titans. Two water stops for the runners, one stop for the walk course. Traffic controlled. Not a closed course, but traffic controlled. Walkers need to obey all traffic laws. Mostly flat, a few rolling hills