CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Every year, 18,000 patients are diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers or other blood disorders that could be cured or treated with a blood stem cell transplant.
But 70% of them don't have a fully matched donor in their family. They depend on NMDP℠ to find an unrelated donor.
Your healthy blood stem cells may be a patient's best or only hope for a cure.
Leticia Mondragon, with NMDP, joined First Edition to show how easy it is to get involved.
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