Do it for life! Bone Marrow Donor Registry Drive

Every 5 minutes, someone is diagnosed with blood cancer, such as leukemia and lymphoma according to the American Cancer Society and DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center. Every 10 minutes, blood cancer takes a life. Currently, only 3 in 10 will find a matching donor that could save their lives. To help improve those odds, Stony Brook University Medical Center is partnering with DKMS Americas to hold three bone marrow registry drives in November with hopes that patients with leukemia or lymphoma in need of a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant will receive a match. The three locations for the SBUMC bone marrow registry drive are:

• Thursday, November 5, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, HSC Galleria
• Saturday, November 7, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, SBU Cancer Center
• Tuesday, November 10, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, SBU Student Activities Center (West Campus)

To learn more about registering to be a Bone Marrow donor, view this video at www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/medicalcenter/donorvideo. For more information about this drive or other bone marrow drives at Stony Brook University Medical Center, call SBUMC’s HealthConnect at (631) 444-4000.