Oakland, CA, January 17, 2020 – Estella Kim, a 35-year-old woman who lives in Sacramento, California, is clinging to life once again. We brought this story to you in March 2019, when Estella was ...
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Juwan’s Drive to Sign Up A Thousand African American Donors
Join Juwan's call to action
No one on the Be the Match stem cell registry was a match, so Juwan began a drive to sign up a thousand more donors, especially ...
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A Christmas Message with Hope.
Dr. Lam Do discusses life-saving stem cell transplant with Christina (Hope) for Christmas.
Christina, now able to register discusses how a marrow transplant saved her brother Luke, 17 years ago. ...
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Ethnicity Matters
How does a patient's ethnic background affect matching?
A patient’s likelihood of finding a matching bone marrow donor or cord blood unit on the Be The Match Registry® ranges from 19% to 80% ...
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Being a donor can be as simple as donating blood platelets
PBSC (which stands for peripheral blood stem cell ) donation is a non-surgical, outpatient procedure. There are two ways to donate to a patient – peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) or bone ...
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AADP calls for more Filipino donors
Asian American Donor Program (AADP) calls for more Filipino Donors in commemoration of bone marrow awareness month.
ALAMEDA, CA — The month of November is National Bone Marrow ...
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Racial Minorities -A Dearth of Donors
Trouble with Stem Cell Transplants: A Dearth of Donors
Each year, nearly 9000 new cases of CML arise in the U.S.
Desimond Viray is a Californian in his early ‘30s. He works in IT ...
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A Gift For Life – Gerard Bao
Back in 2007, I was at a nightclub where a friend was hosting an event with the Asian American Donor Program. Yes, this was where I registered as a donor with a simple q-tip swab of my cheek ...
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#Estella’s 10/26/19 Volleyball Fundraising Tournament and registration event. Thank you Korean American Radio.
Korean American Radio - Interview with Jung Kim on Be the One To Help a Local Family. Oct. 26, 2019
Register as a donor by texting Estella to ...
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Lambda Phi Epsilon Fraternity Saving Lives
The Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity has always supported bone marrow & stem cell registration. When Evan Chen, Stanford Sophomore, and Lambda brother, was diagnosed with leukemia in 1995 at the age ...
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13th Annual AADP Legacy Golf Tournament
The golf tournament is over, and if you believe what you hear, everyone had a great time. I want to thank all of our sponsors, Palmer Electric, Inc., Copart, Kantors Office Furniture, First Republic ...
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Just the right person can save a little boy.
When Evan was 3 years old, he began to suffer mysterious infections that landed him in the hospital.
Eventually, he was diagnosed with chronic granulomatous disease, known as CGD, which makes him ...
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