Bone Marrow

LifeSource is an affiliate of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) and serves as the local recruitment center for the National Registry. We have listed more than 101,000 potential unrelated marrow donors and have coordinated more than 400 unrelated marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplants for patients around the world since its beginning in 1989.

Why Register to Donate Bone Marrow?

Every year, thousands of adults and children need bone marrow transplants; a procedure which may be their only chance for survival. Although some patients with aplastic anemia, leukemia or other cancers have a genetically matched family member who can donate, about 70 percent do not. These patients’ lives depend on finding an unrelated individual with a compatible tissue type, often within their own ethnic group, who is willing to donate marrow.

Diseases Treatable by Bone Marrow Transplant

Marrow transplantation has become the only real "cure" for many diseases. Of the 6,951 patients receiving NMDP-facilitated transplants, 76 percent had some form of leukemia.

The following is a list of some of the diseases most commonly treated by bone marrow transplants:

To Request More Information or to Organize A Marrow Donor Registry Drive

Complete and submit our Bone Marrow Information Request Form

FAQs about Bone Marrow Donations

Bone Marrow Recipient Stories

 

Visit the National Marrow Donor Program site for more information about Bone Marrow donations.