Bone Marrow Paper
Bone Marrow Donor Angels
Do you know what it is like to get the news that a nine year old boy in your family has leukemia and only has six months to live? When we got the news of Jacob’s Leukemia, my Aunt Sharon ran outside in the rain and started screaming and crying. She had always dreamed of seeing Jacob graduate from college and be at his wedding. Now what would you do if I told you that you could help save Jacob’s life or someone else’s life with a marrow donation which your body regenerates within a few weeks?
A bone marrow transplant was needed for Jacob to survive. Jacob’s brothers were tested but they were not a match. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, about seventy percent of patients who need a bone marrow transplant do not have a matching donor in their family. These families turn to the National Bone Marrow Program’s, “Be the Match Registry”, to help them find a potential donor. Kathleen Kingsbury in a Time magazine article stated that “today a matching donor from the national registry is found only about 25% of the time, and that many patients die waiting.”
My whole family is on the national bone marrow registry. My research into bone marrow transplants and family experience has taught me how wonderful bone marrow transplants can be for saving lives. You never know if one day you or one of your family members will be faced by one of the fifty plus types of cancers that can be cured by a bone marrow transplant. I hope that you will consider putting your name on the “Be the Match Registry” in order to hopefully be some person’s angel.
Today, I would like to discuss why you should be a bone marrow donor, the three types of bone marrow donations, and the typing used to match patients and donors.
There are many reasons to join the bone marrow registry. The main reason is to help to save someone’s life. The Institute for Justice states that the national registry of marrow donors consists of only two percent of
Do you know what it is like to get the news that a nine year old boy in your family has leukemia and only has six months to live? When we got the news of Jacob’s Leukemia, my Aunt Sharon ran outside in the rain and started screaming and crying. She had always dreamed of seeing Jacob graduate from college and be at his wedding. Now what would you do if I told you that you could help save Jacob’s life or someone else’s life with a marrow donation which your body regenerates within a few weeks?
A bone marrow transplant was needed for Jacob to survive. Jacob’s brothers were tested but they were not a match. According to the National Marrow Donor Program, about seventy percent of patients who need a bone marrow transplant do not have a matching donor in their family. These families turn to the National Bone Marrow Program’s, “Be the Match Registry”, to help them find a potential donor. Kathleen Kingsbury in a Time magazine article stated that “today a matching donor from the national registry is found only about 25% of the time, and that many patients die waiting.”
My whole family is on the national bone marrow registry. My research into bone marrow transplants and family experience has taught me how wonderful bone marrow transplants can be for saving lives. You never know if one day you or one of your family members will be faced by one of the fifty plus types of cancers that can be cured by a bone marrow transplant. I hope that you will consider putting your name on the “Be the Match Registry” in order to hopefully be some person’s angel.
Today, I would like to discuss why you should be a bone marrow donor, the three types of bone marrow donations, and the typing used to match patients and donors.
There are many reasons to join the bone marrow registry. The main reason is to help to save someone’s life. The Institute for Justice states that the national registry of marrow donors consists of only two percent of