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.