Risks and Benefits of Stem Cell Donation

Stem cell donors are nothing short of superheroes as they save thousands of lives across the globe. The stem cell donor registry is the lifeline for several patients.

 

Recent research has highlighted the medical importance of stem cells but what are they really and why do they matter so much?

 

Stem cells are cells in the body which have the capacity of changing into different types of cell needed by the body. These cells help to cure or help patients with blood-related diseases and other fatal diseases which are hard to cure by any other methods.

 

What are the requirements to become a donor?

 

There are very few limitations posed on stem cell donors. Few conditions where donors are rejected are as follows:

 

  • Donors cannot have autoimmune diseases or blood-related diseases that may be transmitted to the patient.
  • A BMI above 40 (severely overweight) disqualifies a donor from entering the stem cell donor registry.
  • Ages of donors need to lie between 18-30 to provide viable samples to be added to the stem cell donor registry.
  • Stem cell donations should not exceed a maximum of 3 times per donor.

 

How to get added to the Stem cell donor registry?

 

Stem cell donor registries generally follow a simple pattern for new donor registration. There are a few forms that need to be filled before a round of general health checkups. These are mostly for official documentation and to add into the database in case of future potentials matches with your stem cell.

 

Sometimes a few swabs or blood samples may be required to ensure that the donor is in good health. The chances of finding a patient that matches your stem cells are less than 60%. However, donor stem cells are stored using cryostorage techniques and retrieved whenever there is a match.

 

Why should you sign up for Stem cell donor registry?

 

The stem cell donor registry is often the last ray of hope for a lot of terminally ill patients. This is a major motivation for people who join the donor registry. These people are often near their deathbed and other forms of cure have not worked on them.

 

Even though there are certain aspects of discomfort to the donation process. Still, there are thousands of people joining the registry every year to potentially save a life and in some form they can become a saviour for somebody around the world.

 

It can be either for their family members or some random people on the internet whose stem cells are a close match with yours.

 

The stem cell donor registry catalogues and keeps an account of all the available samples of stem cells and continuously matches it with patients to find a viable match. Currently, patients have a chance of finding a match 60% of the time. However, ethnic backgrounds and other constraints may reduce that chance to less than 20%. To reach out and help save lives, register today and donate stem cells for the patients who are terminally ill.

 

Gift of Life Marrow Registry Also Offers Following Services :

 Bone Marrow Foundation

Bone Marrow Match Registry

Aml Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant

Blood Cancer Donor

Contact US:

Gift of Life Marrow Registry
Address:  800 Yamato Rd suite 101  Boca Raton, FL
Phone: (800) 962-7769