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National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)

Each Year, more than 30,000 people are diagnosed with leukemia, aplastic anemia and other life threatening blood diseases. The best hope for these patients is a transplant of healthy marrow from someone who shares their marrow type.

The DTM operates a Marrow Donor Center for the education, recruitment and testing of healthy persons interested in becoming potential bone marrow donors. Persons registering for this program are tested for HLA type and this information is entered in a national registry managed by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). If a volunteer participant in this program is found by the NMDP to be a "perfect" HLA match for a patient in need of a bone marrow transplant, then the NIH Donor Center will notify and counsel the donor, arrange for the collection of marrow in a local NMDP-approved hospital, and coordinate transportation of the marrow to the patient requiring the transplant. Greater than two million people are currently registered with the NMDP as potential marrow donors and approximately 40,000 of these individuals have joined the registry through their participation in the NIH Marrow Donor Center.

The characteristics of marrow are inherited in the same way as hair and eye color. The best chance of finding a matched donor is from a sibling. But 70% of patients do not find a suitable match within their own families. These patients must find an unrelated matched person with healthy marrow, most likely from their same racial or ethnic background. The NMDP and the NIH Marrow Donor Program are committed to increasing the number of potential donors of minority background in order to provide a better chance to find a "match" for minority patients.

Interested individuals may contact the NIH Marrow Donor Center:

Telephone: (301) 496-0572
National Institutes of Health
6011 Executive Blvd., Suite 357
Rockville, MD 20852
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