WHY YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT AS A DONOR

Every FIVE minutes, someone is diagnosed with blood cancer in the U.S., that’s about 130,000 people per year

Every TEN minutes, blood cancer takes a life

Leukemia is the most common disease children in the U.S. die of

More people die of blood cancer than of breast cancer

Breast cancer has a 24 % mortality rate

Prostate Cancer has a 16% mortality rate

Blood cancer has a 41 % mortality rate

Less than 30% of patients in need of a transplant can find a match within their family, the other 70%+ depend on YOU

In 2006, 35,000 patients needed a transplant, but only two out of ten will receive a transplant from an unrelated donor

By registering as a marrow donor, you are giving a blood cancer patient hope; a second chance at life.