Help Cancer Patients Find Bone Marrow Donors!

Summary

Russia and the former Soviet Union lack national bone marrow donor registries. The patients have to pay 5,000 euros for the donor search abroad. Our goal is to help 10 needy patients a year. progress report read updates from the field

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	£31 - will pay for a blood test to determine blood type
	£63 - will pay for a study to determine cancer type
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Russia and the former Soviet Union lack their own bone marrow donor registries. Cancer patients who need the transplants have to pay out of pocket for the donor search abroad, collection of bone marrow, and delivery of transplant. Most of the cancer patients are unable to afford the donor searches, which delays transplantations and results in a bleak outcome.

Activities

Our contribution to the cost of donor searches will allow starting donor searches and will give patients time to raise additional amounts for other transplantation-related costs.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £15,657
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £25,284
Total Funding Goal: £40,941

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This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Latest Update from the Field

Bonus Day Update

By Marina Ouano - Project Leader, May 03, 2012 11:13 AM

Dima

Dear Friend,

In March we participated in a Bonus Day and raised the largest amount ever - almost $9,000 in a day! Once we received the funds, we used them to help five patients with leukemia and blood diseases to make the first installments to the bone marrow donor registry located in Germany so that it could start the donor search for them.

I just wanted to share with you a story of one of these five patients. Dima Komarov is 10. Six years ago, he was first diagnosed with leukemia. It was a rare kind that combined features of both lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias. Although Dima responded to chemotherapy and went into remission for several years, the disease returned at the end of last year. He then had to travel to St. Petersburg from the south of Russia to get evaluated for bone marrow transplantation. This is the only city in Russia where bone marrow from unrelated donors is transplanted. We hope Dima will do well. Thank you so much for giving him and others a chance!

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