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Register as a Bone Marrow Donor Today and Be the ONE to Save a Life
Every day more than 6,000 men, women and children search the National Bone Marrow Registry for their life-saver. Unfortunately, many of them do not survive.
It is estimated that a bone marrow transplant could benefit more than 10,000 children and adults with life-threatening diseases each year, but sadly, only 3 out of 10 patients find an unrelated donor match. This means that the patient relies on the kindness of a complete stranger to give them a second chance at life.
Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.
Please consider registering as a bone marrow donor this year to help give patients in dire need, a chance at survival.
Registration is simple and painless. All you need to do is complete a registraion form and swab your cheeks. If you are identified as a potential match, DKMS will walk you through the entire process from beginning to end.
Read what other bone marrow donors had to say about their experience donating.
Check if you are eligible to register, understand your commitment and learn about the donation process.
Bone Marrow Drive Draws Strangers To Help
Hundreds Come Out to Potentially Help Save a Father, Three Sisters and Others Just Like Them
On Saturday, November 22nd, a bone marrow donor drive was held at the Farwell Elementary School, in Maine, to register potenital life-saving bone marrow donors to help Tom, a father and loving husband, three sisters and others just like them.
All four of these special people along with thousands of other blood cancer patients, need bone marrow transplants in order to survive.
Nearly 300 potential bone marrow donors registered and the drive was featured on the local news station, WSCH6. Click here to view footage from the drive.
Interested in registering, organizing a bone marrow donor drive or helping out in other ways? Click here to learn how.
DKMS, SheKnows.com and Save Giovanni’s Friends Pledge to Add More Bone Marrow Donors to the National Registry
Partners Band Together to Help Save the Lives of Patients in Need of Bone Marrow Transplants
NY, NY – (October 24, 2008) – DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center has teamed-up with Sheknows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, and Save Giovanni’s Friends, to raise awareness about the need for individuals to register as potential life-saving marrow donors to help save the lives of blood cancer patients.
DKMS and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s New York City Chapter Announce Partnership
Join Forces to Pay Tribute to Cancer Patients and Recruit Marrow Donors
NY, NY ¬– September 23, 2008 – DKMS, the world’s largest bone marrow donor center, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s New York City Chapter will team up at this year’s Light The Night Walk® to pay homage to patients battling cancer and to recruit bone marrow donors needed to give hope to more patients suffering from life-threatening blood diseases, such as leukemia and lymphoma.
DKMS Teams Up with SheKnows.com and Save Giovanni’s Friends to Raise Awareness of the Need for Marrow Donors
Partners Pledge to Add 50,000 Donors to the Marrow Donor Registry by 2009
NY, NY – (August 1, 2008) – DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center has teamed-up with SheKnows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, and Save Giovanni’s Friends, to raise awareness about the need for individuals to register as potential life-saving marrow donors.
The web site, SheKnows.com/bone-marrow,will help promote marrow awareness and will offer its users the opportunity to register as a potential marrow donor and be part of this life-saving movement.
DKMS, Love Hope Strength and Driving for Donors Set New World
Over 400 Donors Registered in Just Two Days
THANK YOU!
To EVERYONE at Mile High Music Festival in Denver, CO. We set a new record for the most people to register to become bone marrow donors at a music event...435 people in just 2 days!!! Special thanks to DKMS for joining the LHS team in Denver. We could not do this incredible work without you and Driving for Donors. Read more about the drive!
SheKNows along with DKMS and Save Giovanni and Friends Launch Bone Marrow Awareness Campaign
Pledge to Recruit 50,000 Donors
WHAT: SheKnows www.sheknows.com
partners with DKMS www.dkmsamericas.org, the largest bone marrow donor organization, and Save Giovanni & Friends www.helpgiovanniguglielmo.org to promote awareness of bone marrow diseases and pledges to add 50,000 donors to International Bone Marrow Registry by 2009.
WHEN: Feature launches live on site August 1, 2008
WHERE: www.sheknows.com/Bone-Marrow
WHO: Dr. Jordan Orange, Head of the Division of Immunology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Michael Guglielmo, Founder of the Save Giovanni & Friends Foundation
Katharina Harf, Executive Vice President, DKMS Americas
Contact Erica Schrag for participants available for interview, quotes and more information.
Topics to be spotlighted on SheKnows during the month of August include:
• Bone marrow registry and donation myths medically dispelled.
• First person journal experience of the bone marrow testing process.
• Leukemia diagnosis and treatment
• The story of Baby Giovanni, stricken with a rare immune system disorder, NEMO, confirmed in 68 kids worldwide, at only five months of age.
DKMS, Love Hope Strength Foundation and Driving for Donors Team Up
Aim to Set World Record for Most Marrow Donor Registrations at a Music Festival
Denver,CO June 17, 2008 - The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), which recently set a Guinness record for the highest concert recorded on land, is teaming up with the world’s largest marrow donor center, DKMS and Driving for Donors, lead by the dynamic 12 year-old, Pat Pedraja, to set a world record for most bone marrow registrations at a music event. The group also hopes to dispel the myths that bone marrow donation, if matched, is risky and believes through education, and a very quick registration process, the Mile High Music Festival will serve as an ideal setting to reduce the number of unneeded deaths due to unmatched recipients and allow concert goers to become part of history.
According to DKMS, the current record of donor registrations at a concert is 230. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, the national average for donor registration drives is 50. With an estimated 100,000 people planning to attend the Mile High Music Festival over two days, LHS needs less than one percent of concert goers to participate to set a world record. Registration requires only a cheek swab, and completion of a donor consent form.
DKMS Raises over $1 million at 2nd Annual "Linked Against Leukemia Gala"
Super Model Cindy Crawford & Emanuel Chirico Honored and Mario Cantone Emceed the Event and Natasha Bedingfield Performed
New York, New York (May 7, 2008) — DKMS celebrated their 2nd Annual “Linked Against Leukemia” Gala tonight at Capitale in New York City. The black-tie affair raised 1.18 million dollars, enabling DKMS to register over 12,000 new marrow donors. DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center with more than 1.6 million registered donors, has helped facilitate more than 14,000 transplants.
Popstar Natasha Bedingfield Performing at “Linked Against Leukemia Gala" to Benefit DKMS
May 7th at Capitale in New York City
New York, New York (April 10, 2008) — British singing sensation Natasha Bedingfield will perform at the “Linked Against Leukemia Gala” to benefit DKMS on Wednesday, May 7th at Capitale in New York City. Bedingfield is currently promoting her new album Pocketful of Sunhine and rehearsing for an upcoming tour and has added this fundraiser onto her busy schedule. She joins host Mario Cantone and honorees Cindy Crawford and Emanuel Chirico (Chairman & CEO, Phillips-Van Heusen, parent company of Calvin Klein, Inc.) for an unforgettable night.
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