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Bone marrow donor drives are one of the most important ways we build our network of donors. It provides you the opportunity to learn more about us and often times meet the family of patients. You can be part of our life-saving effort by attending a donor drive and doing a simple cheek swab to register. It's that simple.Just ten minutes of your time can help give a blood cancer patient a second chance at life.
Help Save Sidney
Saturday, November 22, 2008 Brainard, New York
Known as Pop to his beautiful grandchildren, Sidney needs your help so he can see them grow up. Sidney has Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and needs a life-saving transplant. Currently there are no matches on the National Registry. Maybe you might be the one.
Interested in registering? Check to see if you are eligible
Grammy Award Winner, Shaggy, Lends His Voice to DKMS
Musician Speaks Out to Help Save his Friend, Marcia Williams, who Needs a Bone Marrow Transplant
Grammy Award winner, Shaggy, is on a mission to encourage people to register as bone marrow donors, in hopes that someone is a match for his dear friend Marcia and others like her who are suffering from life-threatening blood cancers.
In May of this year, 2008, Marcia found out she had leukemia. She is a mother of two beautiful young girls, and is a loving wife to her husband, Andy Williams, a professional soccer player for the Real Salt Lake team. The family does everything together and they need her in their lives.
A stranger can help save her life. Help DKMS bring together what belongs together, this family.
WATCH THE PSA !
Tom, Jordan, Julia and Jorja Need Our Help!
Saturday, November 22, 2008 Lewiston, Maine
Tom is a young father that needs to see his little girl grow up.
Jordan, Julia and Jorja are three sisters who want to go to school, play with their friends, and do sister things.
All four of these special people need bone marrow transplants in order to survive. They desperately need our help!
By signing up as a bone marrow donor, you will be joining a global movement of millions of donors who stand ready to give a mother, a brother, a daughter, a husband, a grandparent or a friend a second chance at life.
Check if you are eligible to register.
Come Register to be a Bone Marrow Donor!
Sunday, November 23, 2008, Flushing, NY
Each year more than 140,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers.
Leukemia is the most common disease children in the U.S die of, and a bone marrow transplant may be their only hope for a second chance at life.
Come out and register and we can change those statistics!
CHECK IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE AS A DONOR HERE:
Eligibility criteria
Marcia and Andy Williams – Together, they FIGHT AGAINST HER LEUKEMIA
A Bone Marrow Transplant is her only Chance for Survival
Salt Lake, UT, October 28, 2008 — DKMS, the largest bone marrow donor center in the world, is in a constant struggle to save lives of patients and to get more donors on the national registry. We received a desperate plea for help from the family and friends of a beautiful young mother of two, Marcia Williams. DKMS will do everything we can to help this family stay together.
Marcia shares her story, “My husband, Andy Williams, is a professional soccer player and is currently playing for the MLS team, Real Salt Lake. He travels a lot in his career, however, when he is home, we do EVERYTHING together as a family. I have come to realize that my girls, Shai, age 14 and Lexi, age 5 and husband, cannot imagine life without me - a reality that we may now have to face.
In May of this year, 2008, I found out that my blood counts were very low. On July 3, 2008, we received the terrible news that it was leukemia. My world stopped, I wanted so very badly for it not to be true. I have since learned that my only chance to survive is a bone marrow transplant.
With all the love, help and support we have received, I am still desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant. I am relying on a stranger to save my life. I am asking you, PLEASE, please think about the lives you could save, my life, among many others, moms, dads, babies can be saved if you sign up and become a marrow donor .
“I know the donor who is a match for me is out there, but if you are not tested, I will never find you,” said Marcia. “My children and husband need me in their lives, and I need them”.
Marcia’s daughter, Shai, says this about her mom, “I’m always thinking ‘Will my mom be okay?’ I just hope and pray for the best every single day. My mom needs to be here. For my graduation. For my wedding. For my kids.”
Currently, 10,000 blood cancer patients need a bone marrow transplant, but only 3,000 will receive one.
Please Save My Mom Nicole! DKMS Bone Marrow Donor Drive with Giovanni and Friends
The fight for Nicole's life continues! Monday, November 24, 2008 - Nashua, NH
On Father's Day of 2008, Nicole's world was shattered when her doctors told her that she was suffering from a very aggressive form of Lymphoma. With her husband and two year old son by her side, they have vowed to do everything possible to get her well.
Not only is Nicole fighting for her life, but she is fighting for the chance to see her beautiful 2 year old son Jack grow up. Her ONLY chance to win this battle is a bone marrow transplant. Please give Nicole a chance at life! Donor testing is easy and painless! She needs YOU!
Register as a marrow donor and you could help save Nicole and other patients like her. “Every year, more than 10,000 Americans get life-threatening diseases that can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, yet only 3,500 find a match,” states Katharina Harf, EVP of DKMS Americas. Help us change this!
Watch Nicole in a recent PSA from DKMS here
Check if you are eligible as a donor!
Please Save My Mom Nicole! DKMS Bone Marrow Donor Drive with Giovanni and Friends.
Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd and 4th, 2008 - Brandeis University - Waltham, MA
Why:
On Father's Day of 2008, Nicole's world was shattered when her doctors told her that she was suffering from a very aggressive form of Lymphoma. With her husband and two year old son by her side, they have vowed to do everything possible to get her well.
Not only is Nicole fighting for her life, but she is fighting for the chance to see her beautiful 2 year old son Jack grow up. Her ONLY chance to win this battle is a bone marrow transplant. Please give Nicole a chance at life! Donor testing is easy and painless! She needs YOU!
Register as a marrow donor and you could help save Nicole and other patients like her. “Every year, more than 10,000 Americans get life-threatening diseases that can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, yet only 3,500 find a match,” states Katharina Harf, EVP of DKMS Americas. Help us change this!
Watch Nicole in a recent PSA from DKMS here
Check if you are eligible as a donor!
11-year-old Soccer Fan to Register Donors. Inspired by Marcia and Andy Williams Fight Against Leukemia. Join him at the drive!
Saturday, December 13th, 2008 Round Rock, Texas
Evan looks up to Andy Williams, whose wife Marcia is battling Leukemia and currently has no matches. Evan and his mom are spearheading a bone marrow drive to help save Marcia and other people just like her. Evan says, "Too many people are being taken away from their families too soon and it doesn't need to be that way. You can make a difference by registering with DKMS as a bone marrow donor."
Brett Needs Our Help!
Sunday, November 16th, Flemington, NJ
Brett Melworm is 40 years old, married to his loving wife Stephanie, and dad to their precious little girls, four year old Lily and two year old Rebecca.
Brett has always been proactive about his health, exercising regularly and eating healthy. All aspects of his life were in order, life was good.
Things changed on August 25th, 2008. On this day, Brett was diagnosed with acute leukemia, one of the most aggressive and lethal types of this life-threatening disease. Brett needs a bone marrow transplant in order to survive.
By coming out to register to be a bone marrow donor YOU can be Brett’s life-saver. YOU can be the ONE to allow Brett to watch his two little girls grow up to be beautiful women.
Understand Your Commitment and check if you are eligible to register.
Please Save My Mom Nicole! DKMS Bone Marrow Donor Drive with Giovanni and Friends.
Sunday, November 16, 2008 Haverhill, MA
On Father's Day of 2008, Nicole's world was shattered when her doctors told her that she was suffering from a very aggressive form of Lymphoma. With her husband and two year old son by her side, they have vowed to do everything possible to get her well.
Not only is Nicole fighting for her life, but she is fighting for the chance to see her beautiful 2 year old son Jack grow up. Her ONLY chance to win this battle is a bone marrow transplant. Please give Nicole a chance at life! Donor testing is easy and painless! She needs YOU!
Register as a marrow donor and you could help save Nicole and other patients like her. “Every year, more than 10,000 Americans get life-threatening diseases that can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor, yet only 3,500 find a match,” states Katharina Harf, EVP of DKMS Americas. Help us change this!
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