YOU CAN HELP! Donor-registration drive in West Seattle next Sunday

You might be able to save someone’s life. Next Sunday (July 24th), you can find out how, by talking with a fellow West Seattleite during a Be The Match donor-registration drive. Rebecca Harvey says it’s happening on the new patio at Fresh Flours Bakery in South Delridge:

I, along with other volunteers and a representative from Be The Match, will be there from 9 am to 2 pm Sunday to answer any questions regarding being a donor, as well as registering on the spot anyone that would like to join the donor registry. This is an important cause as these donors have the potential to be the cure a cancer patient needs.

Be The Match is a great organization that operates the largest and most diverse donor registry in the world, in order to connect patients with blood diseases to their life-saving marrow or stem-cell transplant. Anyone between the ages of 18 and 44 who is in good health and committed to donating to a patient in need is encouraged to join the donor registry. Joining is simple and takes less then 10 minutes – all you need to do is fill out a form and swab your cheek!

Seattle is a premier city for cancer treatment, with some of the best doctors in the world. In fact, Fred Hutch scientists pioneered the development of bone marrow transplantation to treat patients with blood cancers, and to this day Seattle doctors are considered experts on the treatment and procedure.

The more donors we register, the more patients we can potentially help find their cure.

Fresh Flours is at 9410 Delridge Way SW. If you are interested in registering and can go there on Sunday between 9 and 2, e-mail Rebecca at rebecca_harvey@icloud.com or RSVP via this Facebook event page – she’d like to know how many donor-swab kits to bring. If you already know you can’t make it, but you’re interested in registering anyway, go here for the online version of the donor-registration drive.

3 Replies to "YOU CAN HELP! Donor-registration drive in West Seattle next Sunday"

  • dale July 18, 2016 (9:23 pm)

    Thank you. Ive been called twice as a match and once as a donor, in the nineties. Keep the progress alive. The bigger the pool the better the odds. Peaches. 

  • dale July 18, 2016 (9:28 pm)

    PS..its 18-60 ages. 

    • WSB July 18, 2016 (9:43 pm)

      Dale – thank you for having volunteered. Being some distance over 44 myself, I looked at the site after Rebecca’s announcement mentioned 18-44. It seems that 44 is the cutoff for “most likely to be called” – 95 percent of the time – so if you are over 44, they charge $100 for processing your participation. 44 or under, it’s free. Explained here: https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/matching-patients-with-donors/why-donor-age-matters/

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