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NOVEMBER IS NATIONAL MARROW AWARENESS MONTH
Register as a bone marrow donor in support of patients in need of a transplant
November is National Marrow Awareness Month and DKMS is encouraging people to help save lives by registering to be a potential bone marrow donor.
On any given day, more than 6,000 men, women and children are searching the National Registry for a life-saver like YOU. These patients have leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening blood diseases that can be treated by a bone marrow transplant. For many of these patients, a transplant may be the best and only hope of a cure.
Every 5 minutes, someone is diagnosed with blood cancer such as leukemia and lymphoma.
Every 10 minutes, blood cancer takes a person's life.
Less than 30% of patients can find a match within their own family, the other 70% depend on YOU.
Only 3 out of 10 patients will receive the transplant that could save their lives.
When you register as a bone marrow donor you join the global movement of more than 11 million donors who stand ready to give someone a second chance at life. YOU can help create a miracle.
Learn how to become a bone marrow donor.
If you are ineligible to register, there are other ways you can help.
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.
Leukemia 24-7 Annual Fundraising and Life-Saving Marrow Donor Drive Event at Zick’s Great Outdoors!
Week of September 1st, 2008 Springfield, MO
Wildwood, MO (August 27, 2008) - Leukemia 24-7 will hold its annual fundraising and life-saving Marrow Donor Drive from September 4th to 7th at Zick’s Great Outdoors with the support of DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center.
Mother of Three Suffering from Blood Cancer Inspires Hundreds to Come Out to Register as Potential Life-Saving Donors
Mother Hopes Her Donor Match can be Identified to Help Save her Life
NY, NY (August 25, 2008) - Lisa Mottesi, a mother of three small children, recently diagnosed with leukemia, along with DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center, and her family and friends held a successful marrow donor drive on Sunday, August 24th.
The team mobilized virtually every soul in summer ridden Short Hills and Milburn, New Jersey to come out and register as potential marrow donors to help save the young mother’s life as well as the lives of others threatened by leukemia and other life-threatening blood cancers.
SheKnows Puts Focus on Bone Marrow Awareness – Pledges to Add 50,000 Donors to International Bone Marrow Registry by Next Year
LOS ANGELES, CA – August 4, 2008
SheKnows.com, one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, announced today the launch of their dedicated feature site (www.SheKnows.com/bone-marrow) promoting bone marrow awareness and offering its users the chance to participate in this life saving movement by registering for a bone marrow donor kit.
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.
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