Posted by: bibhav9 April 23, 2009
My friend is fighting cancer
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it's not that the leukemia is rare, it's just that it's usually hard for racial minorities and people of mixed race to find a match in the bone marrow registry: her father is black and her mother is white. People who do find a match almost always find a match within their own race (90% of the time) so we need more minorities and people of mixed race to register. e.g. if a nepali would need marrow, their chances of finding a match will increase if more nepalis sign up to register.

Even if you won't match with natasha, you are still likely to save someone's life. and contrary to popular beliefs, it's not a very painful procedure (they use anasthetic and you don't need to spend the night at the hospital.

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