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Our friend Amit G, one of the nicest and most remarkable people we know, has recently been diagnosed with leukemia. He urgently needs to find someone who can donate bone marrow to help him in his fight!
To fight leukemia, he needs matching bone marrow. Despite 9.5 million people on the National Registry, South Asians are...
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Our friend Amit G, one of the nicest and most remarkable people we know, has recently been diagnosed with leukemia. He urgently needs to find someone who can donate bone marrow to help him in his fight!
To fight leukemia, he needs matching bone marrow. Despite 9.5 million people on the National Registry, South Asians are severely underrepresented. The odds of an Indian minority finding a match are 1 in 20,000.
It's up to us to help Amit find a match. To that end, we are gathering all who can commit to becoming a donor for a party. Test kits will be on hand, so please bring as many of your South Asian friends as you can!
There will be a photobooth, so dress creatively!
Because the mysteries of DNA matching encourage participants of subcontinental geographic ancestry, please bring as many of your South Asian friends as you can. However, we welcome all shades of human to join us at our bone marrow drive!
We will have spirits, music, and registration kits galore. Forward widely (especially to people in NYC)!
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.helpvinay.org/dp/index.php?q=node/18
Getting A Cheek Swab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfqQQN-4OkQ
The National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP) and our Be The Match Foundation® are nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating an opportunity for all patients to receive the bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant they need, when they need it.
If you can't attend our registration drive, you can sign up for a kit on the marrow.org website. It takes 5 minutes and they will mail the kit to your home. Another 5 minutes, mail it back and you are done.
If you are matched and proceed, there are two ways of donating. Most donations do not involve surgery (peripheral blood cell donation), and take only an hour. The second method (bone marrow donation) is a surgical procedure done under anesthesia. Typically, you'd get to go home on the day of the donation. With the latter, there with some pain in their lower back for a few days afterwards. Because only five percent or less of a donor's marrow is needed to save the patient's life, the donor's immune system stays strong and the cells replace themselves within four to six weeks. In either case, there is little risk to donor and you remake what you give in couple of weeks.
There are some medical guidelines as to who is or is not eligible:
http://marrow.org/Join/Medical_Guidelines/Medical_Guidelines_for_Joining_the_Registry.aspx
National Marrow Donor Program
http://marrow.org/
South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters
http://samarinfo.org/
