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“If you can’t change your own life, there’s always someone else’s.” - Aisha

“If you can’t change your own life, there’s always someone else’s.” - Aisha

“If you can’t change your own life, there’s always someone else’s.” - Aisha
DKMS Awards Grants for College Donor Drives

DKMS Awards Grants for College Donor Drives

DKMS Awards Grants for College Donor Drives
Start your virtual donor drive today!

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Start your virtual donor drive today!

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Start your virtual donor drive today!

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Please help my dad beat blood cancer

Please help my dad beat blood cancer

Please help my dad beat blood cancer
New college program inspires leaders

New college program inspires leaders

New college program inspires leaders
DKMS receives $25k grant from Love Your Melon

DKMS receives $25k grant from Love Your Melon

DKMS receives $25k grant from Love Your Melon
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Did you know?

Every 3 minutes, an American is diagnosed with a blood cancer.

Every 3 minutes, an American is diagnosed with a blood cancer.

Every 3 minutes, an American is diagnosed with a blood cancer.

1 in 3 Finds a Donor in the Family

1 in 3 Finds a Donor in the Family

Only 30% of all patients are able to find a compatible bone marrow donor in their family.

We are making a difference

Registered Donors Worldwide

9,496,275

Bone Marrow Donations Worldwide

80,189

Bone Marrow Donations

Registered Donors in the U. S.

1,070,699

We can save more lives

Register as a Donor

Sign up online. Swab at home. Return your swabs to get on the lifesaver list.

Make a Gift

With $45 you can help DKMS register new bone marrow donors. 100% of any gift will help fund the lifesaving mission of DKMS.

Other Ways to Help Learn more

There are so many other ways to support our lifesaving efforts.

Latest articles

Donating was a “no brainer” for me

Joining the bone marrow donor pool and donating her blood stem cells was a decision that Corie Dugas never regretted. She registered to be a bone marrow donor at a college drive and waited 10 years to be someone’s matching donor. She shares her story to help let others know just what the process is like to encourage others to sign up.

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The Sweetest 16

Lauren Peyton and her bone marrow donor Frank Vooren celebrated the 16th anniversary of Lauren’s transplant in a Sweet 16 for the ages! Joined by 150 of her closest friends and family at The Staten restaurant in Staten Island, NY...

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Zelaya and Pierre: United for the first time

For most kids, the early years are ones of constant exploration and discovery. For Zelaya Guevara though, discovery meant potential danger. Battling leukemia since the age of two, Zelaya had spent much of her life confined within the white walls of a hospital...

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