The 9th National Week of Mobilization for Bone Marrow Donation takes place from Monday April 7 to Saturday April 12, 2014. The challenge this year is to recruit 18,000 new donors while diversifying the genetic profiles of volunteers.
“Each patient with a serious blood pathology must be given an additional chance to be cured. Indeed, the compatibility between a donor and a patient is extremely rare whereas it is capital for a successful transplant. This is why the mobilization for the registration of new donors must be further intensified. The more donors will be on the register, the more patients will have an additional chance of recovery, ”explains the Biomedicine Agency in a press release. Each year, more than 2,000 people with severe blood disease can benefit from a bone marrow transplant.
Bone marrow transplant to save lives
A bone marrow transplant can treat many cases of serious blood diseases, such as leukemiaAcute, characterized by an abnormally high number of white blood cells in the blood, aplastic anemia, a rarer pathology which mainly affects children or young adults, which represents a stop in the functioning of the bone marrow. And also sickle cell anemia, an inherited defect in the production of red blood cells, which particularly affects people from Africa and the West Indies.
To get informed and get involved
All information is available on the website www.dondemoelleosseuse.fr. But the National Week of Mobilization for Bone Marrow Donation is also being held on social networks. You can share and discuss on the Bone Marrow Donation Facebook page and on Twitter @moelleosseuse.
221,460 people in France have already committed to donate bone marrow by registering on the France Marrow Transplant register managed by the Biomedicine Agency. This mobilization operation is led by the Biomedicine Agency, in collaboration with the French Blood Establishment, hospitals, the French marrow transplant and cell therapy company and associations.
