Be The Match for someone in need. That someone could be someone you know and love or it could be a complete stranger. Every three minutes, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and 70 percent of patients do not have a fully matched donor in their family. They depend on Be The Match to find the person that could save their life.
Be The Match (BTM) is a nonprofit organization focused on saving lives through marrow and umbilical cord blood transplantation. Their registry is the connection between patients searching for a cure and life-saving bone marrow donors.
A marrow transplant replaces a patient’s unhealthy blood-forming cells with healthy ones from a donor, and can be a cure for more than 70 different diseases, including leukemia, lymphoma and sickle cell disease, according to BTM.
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