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Article: Donors sign-up for bone marrow awareness.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2008
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STUDENTS from The University of Sheffield organised a bone marrow awareness week to sign up potential donors.
The Sheffield Marrow group - which involves medical and other students - ran clinics to add more people to the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Register, and events including a bag pack at Somerfield in Broomhill, a bar crawl, and a raffle, to highlight the vital work of the charity. Sheffield Marrow was set up initially just for medical students because they are able to take blood sample in the clinics - part of the process involved in joining a bone ...