As part of our support for Good Morning America's 'One Match, Second Chance' campaign, ABC7 partnered with 'Be the Match' for bone marrow donor registry at Loyola Marymount University.
"I have had friends and family in the past who had given by bone marrow as well, and I just thought it'd be a really important thing to do," Pidgeon said."I put myself on the registry because I wanted to be able to to give if I could and I want people to know that it really does matter, that the people are generous in that way, and it can change lives and it can save lives and I watched it happen and so I'm happy to to be on the in the database," Brown said.
For blood cancer patients and others with bone marrow related diseases, finding a match is difficult. Kathryn Lopez for "Be the Match" said they're matching genetic traits and they're trying to find their patients' genetic twin to see if they'd be interested in donating."We don't have enough people in the registry coming from those backgrounds and adding themselves to the registry to see if they could potentially become a match," Lopez said.
Your odds of finding an unrelated match drops significantly if you are Black, Asian, Latino or Native American.
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