unrelated match

Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry

National Registry of Unrelated Bone Marrow

When it comes to cutting waiting list times, we have developed a European IT tool that enables doctors in one Member State to find suitable donors for their patients in another Member State.

About five cord blood banks and eight transplant centres in the United States are participating in the study to make sure that there's a head-to-head comparison between unrelated bone marrow transplantation and unrelated cord blood transplantation.

The Bruce Denniston Bone Marrow Society was formed with the sole purpose of developing a registry of unrelated donors to provide a source of marrow stem cells for patients who found no matches in their relatives.

Some of the measures to achieve this important goal should include: a focus on the increasing enrolment of ethnic minorities and mixed minorities; a focus on the increased enrolment of younger donors, aged 18 to 35, as the youth of their stem cells can lead to better transplant outcomes, as published; the establishment of a national cord blood bank in Canada, ethnically diverse, which would be a complementary and long-awaited stem cell source for many patients who cannot find an unrelated donor match; increased funding for research in the area of mismatched donor transplantation, to establish whether manipulation, a graft, and/or the ...[+++]recipient's immune system can lead to improvement in clinical outcomes; continuing the present efforts and adopting new ways to increase awareness among the Canadian public about the importance of becoming a stem cell donor; and perhaps increasing funding to allow for the thorough and accurate reporting of the outcomes of stem cell transplants to the Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group, the only group that collects this clinical data, which in turn might lead to improvements in transplantation outcomes.