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Article: Welcome for bone marrow appeal
- Article from:
- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- February 27, 2002
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AN APPEAL for more North-East bone marrow donors has been welcomed
by the mother of a transplant recipient.
The National Blood Service and the Leukaemia Care Society jointly
launched the appeal at the service's Newcastle centre yesterday.
It aims to boost the number of donors on the British Bone Marrow
Register and other UK registers, which receive an estimated 3,000
requests a year from hospitals across Britain, and provide between
200 and 250 donors.
The registries are needed when the tissue of patients and their
families does not match, ruling out relatives as potential donors.
Nationally, many more donors from all parts of the community, and