September 2020 – BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In August 2020:
33 transplants, 29 of these from donor pools
3,697 total transplants
Transplant Countries
Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Greece, Israel, Poland, UK, USA
Donor Pool Countries
Brazil, Canada, Israel, Mexico, UK, USA
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BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
In July 2020:
30 transplants, 25 of these from donor pools
3,664 total transplants
1,883 new members this month
1,036,689 total members in registry Continue reading Because of You!
January 2017 – Bone Marrow Donor Registry Activity Summary
27 lifesaving transplants
12 of them from personalized donor pools
2,377 total transplants
843, 373 members in registry
Of these, 12 were made possible by funding from personalized donor pools. Continue reading Because of You!
In October 2016 Ezer Mizion’s Bone Marrow Registry facilitated 20 lifesaving transplants for a total of 2,288 lives saved!
Of these, 10 were made possible by funding from personalized donor pools.
Here are the sponsors who saved lives this month, and the total number of transplants done by their donor pool. Continue reading Because of You!
It was his birthday but he wasn’t there. He would have turned 63 and his family and friends would have gathered together to show him how much they loved him. But instead, a different kind of celebration was held. The Gil Marks Donor Pool was launched at a small ceremony in the presence of Gil’s 89 year old active, perky mother, his brother-in-law, his devoted nephews and nieces and some greats from the fourth generation.
For his mother, especially, his birthday was one of the hardest days but made much easier by the knowledge that, in spite of the fact that he never married, the bone marrow donor pool created in his memory will be an everlasting legacy. It will save the lives of so many others –many of them children who will mature and produce the offspring that Gil never had.
Several months ago, Gil A’H lost the battle to cancer. A bone marrow transplant, often the remedy for many types of cancer, was not an option in Gil’s case. Continue reading He Wasn’t There
