Helping Tami - How Registering your Bone Marrow Can Save a Life: January 2011

Want to join the fight? Be The Match bone marrow donors save lives. Learn more on Be The Match's YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/bethematch

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Videos

Our What's Up Wit' That? Video won the first ever "Free Speech TV Community Activism Award!"

What's Up Wit That?
A 30 minute KMVT tv show focusing on how and why to join the National Marrow Donor Program.

How to Register at a Live Drive
3 minutes and 54 seconds

Krissy Kobata on EXTRA

Project Michelle Documentary

While Michelle underwent chemo several times and received a cord blood stem cell transplant, it failed several months later and her need for an adult marrow match became absolutely critical. Tragically a match was not found in time and Michelle passed away on July 25, 2009. If you are Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai or any combination of these ethnicities PLEASE join the Registry to find out if you are the one who can save a patient in need like Michelle. She was only 27 years old.

To date Project Michelle has now located matches for 4 other patients in need allowing them to receive a potentially life saving marrow transplant. By registering over 20,000 potential donors into the National Registry Project Michelle will continue to locate matches for other patients in need for decades to come.

Why Join the National Registry?
From studio msv on Vimeo.

Show Your Support

With a Cancer Sucks Wristband. They're great conversation starters to help spread the word about the National Marrow Donor Program

CLICK HERE to order one and to learn about our friend Roger who received a marrow transplant in March at MD Anderson in Houston, TX and is now recovering from Myelodysplasia.

This is Roger post transplant. After several agonizing days when the chemo hit him hard among other things he started losing his hair. Here he is beginning to feel better and in the process of having his head shaved.

Do You Know a Terminallly Ill Patient Who Wants to Get Married?

Wish Upon a Wedding is a new non-profit launching in 2010 whose purpose is to grant weddings and civil union ceremonies to patients facing life threatening illnesses.

Wish Upon A Wedding on Facebook