200,000 donors! If this step is important, it is because it underlines the commitment of each donor registered since 1986 on the France Greffe de Moelle register managed by the Biomedicine Agency.
It illustrates the commitment of each lifeguard who can help save the life of a patient by becoming a donor, ”emphasizes Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave, Executive Director of the Biomedicine Agency. “But France must be able to further enrich and diversify its donor file to offer a patient more chances of finding a compatible registered person. This is why we must continue this mobilization to reach 240,000 registered donors by 2015, ”she continues.
Everyone at their own level can help achieve this goal by mobilizing those around them! Website www.dondemoelleosseuse.fr provides everyone with tools to relay information and allows pre-registration through its online form. At the same time, Internet users can also interact with the Veilleurs de vie community on Facebook at the address www.facebook.com/dondemoelleosseuse to share their experiences or encourage their loved ones to become Life Watchers in turn.
The more lifeguards there are, the more the hope of saving a sick person increases
Patients need large numbers of donors with diverse genetic profiles to increase their chance of finding a suitable match.
Every year, 2,000 people suffering from serious blood diseases, such as leukemia, lymphomas, but also other forms of lesser known blood pathologies, can be treated with a bone marrow transplant. Each new registered donor can offer a patient an additional chance of recovery. Thus, in 2011, 1,544 bone marrow transplants were performed thanks to voluntary donors (52% from donors from French and international registers and 48% thanks to a donation in the family).
