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Unrelated Donor StemCell Transplantation: The Role of the National Marrow Donor Program

Chatchada Karanes, MD;Dennis Confer, MD;Tim Walker, MA;Andrea Askren, MA;Claire Keller, RN
August 1st 2003

Approximately 70% of patientswith life-threatening diseasestreatable with allogeneic bloodstem cell transplantation do not havematched related donors. The NationalMarrow Donor Program (NMDP) wasestablished in 1986 to provide humanleukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched,volunteer unrelated donors for thesepatients. The NMDP performs thistask by maintaining a registry of morethan 4.9 million volunteer donors ofmarrow and peripheral blood stemcells (PBSC) and 12 cord blood bankscontaining more than 25,000 units ofumbilical cord blood.

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