The Marquette General Cancer Center, in conjunction with the Michigan Community Blood Centers, will conduct a bone marrow donor registry drive on Monday, September 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the third floor of the Neldberg building, near the escalators, at Marquette General Hospital.
Registering to donate is free, painless and simple. Donors must be 18 to 60 years old and must fill out a questionnaire and do a quick swab on the inside of the mouth. No blood is drawn.
Bone marrow transplants may represent the best hope of survival for people with life-threatening blood diseases such as aplastic anemia and some kinds of leukemia. Donors can be found within a patient's family only about 30 percent of the time. The other 70 percent of patients need to find unrelated volunteer donors.
For more information call 225-3500.
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