30,000 people in the United States will need a bone marrow transplant this year and only 3,000 will find their life-saving match. You have the power to change this…ARE YOU ON THE LIST?
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12-14 March, 9:00AM-3:00PM Canoecopia Convention
Alliant Energy Center, Madison, WI
13 March, 8:00PM-11:30PM John Common & Blinding Flashes of Light
Walnut Room, Denver, CO
10 April, 7:00PM-10:00PM Hazel Miller Band Concert
Soiled Dove, Denver, CO
15 May, 8:00AM-1:00PM Gift of Breath and Life 5K
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
10-13 June, 9:00AM-6:00PM Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester, TN
6-8 Aug, 9:00AM-6:00PM Lollapalooza Music Festival
Grant Park, Chicago, IL
14&15 Aug, 9:00AM-6:00PM Mile High Music Festival
Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colorado
11&12 Sept, 9:00AM-6:00PM Union County Music Festival
Oak Ridge Park, Clark, NJ
GREAT MEDICAL NEWS RELEASE!!!!
Did you know that last week, the medical industry announced a ‘cure’ for Sickle Cell Disease ?
This breakthrough information should be shared with EVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN!
Please visit these web sites for the breaking news
Sickle Cell Survivor: Cure is “dream come true” – MSNBC
NIH discovers key to sickle cell cure – MSNBC
How can you help?
Pass this email to every African American you know and ask them to pass it on to all their family, friends, neighbors, and anyone they know that is African American. Of all the ethnic groups on the National Registry, Blacks are the LEAST represented. Of the 7,000,000 donors on the registry, only 8% are African Americans; that is the lowest of all ethnic groups!
The ‘cure’ for Sickle Cell is a matching stem cell transplant from a matching donor. Only 14% will find a match within their own family. The other 86% have to go to the National Registry for a matching donor. Since all of us inherit our dna from our parents, the overwhelming chance is an African American will match another African American, Latinos will match each other, etc.
Join the ‘Be The Match’ Registry NOW at www.marrow.org . If you are Black it is vital you join today. 70,000 people in the US have Sickle Cell Disease. When it is their time to go to the data base for a matching donor, will there be enough African American donors to help Sickle Cell patients whose last chance is a life-saving transplant? Not today there won’t. But, if every African American that reads this would go to www.marrow.org and sign up to be a donor, children and adults who have SCD may be saved.
Also, other African Americans who suffer from leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood cancers and disorders will benefit, as well. In many cases, their last chance to live is a stem cell transplant from another African American.
Pass it on!!
National Marrow Donor Drive, Inc.
