Why Bone Marrow Donation?
Journal Costs Recreation Why Marrow Donation? Update Personal Testimony: not meant for the worldly minded. Bone Marrow Donation is actually a misnomer. The doctors are not after your marrow per se, but are really after the stem cells in your marrow. After killing off all the patients bone marrow, your marrow is injected into their veins and the stem cells migrate into the long bones of the body. The donor’s immune system becomes their immune system; the donors blood type and genetic material becomes their blood type and genetic material. Typically this is done as the last resort, and only after other conventional therapies have failed. Bone marrow donation only succeeds in about 40% of the cases, but those 40% who are saved would have otherwise died. The donor is exchanging a couple weeks of discomfort for the opportunity to save a life. And how often do we get the chance to do that? Bone marrow donation does some odd and curious things. First, the patient exchanges their immune system
