World Blood Cancer Day 2018

World Blood Cancer Day is an awareness-raising day dedicated to the fight against blood cancer. In 2014 at the initiative of DKMS, the international celebration of this day was established on May 28. The day is dedicated to both patients and their friends and families, but primarily all people who can save life to a patient with blood cancer by enrolling as a potential hematopoietic stem cell donor.

Every 35 seconds, somewhere in the world someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. For many people diagnosed with blood cancer, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from a donor corresponds to their only chance of survival. Healthy stem cell transplantation helps regenerate the bone marrow of the recipient who is starting to produce healthy blood cells again. However, for the transplant to have the greatest chance of success, the characteristics of the donor tissue must match exactly with the characteristics of the patient’s tissue. Because there are thousands of different combinations of tissue characteristics, which are influenced by ethnicity and the geographical area of provenance, some features can be very rare, and finding a suitable donor can be a challenge – as if you were looking for the needle in a haystack.

Our goal is to give everyone who needs an unrelated stem cell transplant from a non-relater donor a new chance at life.

You can find us in Cluj-Napoca at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iuliu Hatieganu Cluj-Napoca Gheorghe Marinescu Street number 23, between 09.00 – 16.00 and together we can be the #EroulDinUmbra(Hero from the shadows) of another hero.