How did bone-marrow registries develop?

In 1979, Laura Graves, a patient with leukemia, was referred to the Hutchinson Center. Laura did not have a matched donor in her family, so Center staff searched through their database of platelet donors in an attempt to find a match. Luckily, one of the laboratory staff turned out to be a good match.

Laura's transplant was successful, and she did not develop graft-vs.-host disease. Although Laura died two years later of recurrent leukemia, the Graves family continued to lead an effort to establish a national registry of people volunteering to be bone-marrow donors. The National Bone Marrow Donor Registry was federally funded in 1986, and in 1987 the first donor match was made.

In 1988, the name was changed to the National Marrow Donor Registry (NMDP). The NMDP now includes a network of donor registries in 30 countries. Its database contains more than 5.5 million donors and facilitates an average of 200 transplants each month.

For more information, go to: http://www.marrow.org/NMDP/ ... more.

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