How does the Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Registry (UBMDR) work?
For a person in need of bone marrow, the Canadian Blood Services Registry is a lifeline to more than 6.5 million potential donors. More than 210,000 of these are Canadians who have generously joined the Canadian Blood Services’ Registry, while the rest belong to similar registries in other countries. When a Canadian physician decides that a patient’s best chance for recovery is a bone marrow transplant, Canadian Blood Services is able to search more than 50 registries for a compatible donor. More than 100 Canadians receive bone marrow transplants in this way every year.
