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[Danail Bulgaria]

While browsing I found this site: 

 

http://medicalxpress...agent.html#nRlv

 

There is a banner picture, that writes: "a swab + 2 minutes = lives saved" and "Consider your cheeks swabbed in support of bone marrow donation ... "

 

What exactly do they mean? 

 

Edited by seivtcho, 21 December 2015 - 08:59 PM.

[Danail Bulgaria]

Any suggestions?

Or contacts with the people from the baner?

 

[Danail Bulgaria]

As usual I found my answer before you people lol. This forum becomes more and more useless with the time.

 

It is meaned that they take you dna sample from the cheek with a swab, analize it in order to understand if you can be a bone marrow stem cells donor for a patient, who needs bone marrow stem cells transplant, and if you are, you can donate bone marrow stem cells for the someone and save his or her life.

 

An example:

http://www.hornchurc...save-rajs-life/

"To find out if you are a matching donor for Raj, or someone just like him, all it takes is a simple swab of the inside of your cheek and 5 minutes of your times."

"If you are in good health, between the ages of 18-55 you can become a potential blood stem donor"

 

A detailed explanation about the procedure of how exactly the matching happens:

https://bethematch.o...ts-are-matched/