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How is a donor matched to a patient?

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How is a donor matched to a patient?

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When you register to become a donor, you provide a cheek swab sample. From that sample, we are able to obtain what is called your ’tissue type’ or your ‘HLA type’. This string of markers is what we use to match a patient to a donor.

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