The Need To Grow Bone Marrow Registries
Gift of Life is one of three registries listing unrelated bone marrow donors in the United States. Only 30 percent of patients with diseases treatable with a bone marrow transplant can find a suitable donor among their family members. The remaining 70 percent must rely on the generosity of an unrelated donor to save their lives.
Read more about this topic: Gift Of Life Bone Marrow Foundation
Famous quotes containing the words grow, bone and/or marrow:
“The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light—
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)