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What proportion of people get bone marrow transplants today?

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At least 3,000 people die each year because they cannot find a matching donor. If an African-American finds a match on the registry, there is an 80 percent chance that the identified donor is the only match on the registry. Bone marrow donation requires less than five percent of marrow cells. read more

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70 percent of marrow donations use peripheral blood stem cell apheresis. 30 percent of marrow donations use the traditional method of putting a needle in your hip. Donating bone marrow is safe: More than 35,000 people have donated bone marrow to a stranger without a single donor death. read more

Source: ij.org

View the number of bone marrow and cord blood transplants reported for a specific disease. You can also select patient age, patient gender, patient race and cell source and view the year when the transplant was performed. read more

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