World Blood Cancer Day 2022

World Blood Cancer Day is marked every year on May 28, as an alarm signal to raise awareness of the importance of these types of cancer, but also to encourage people to register in the National Registry of Voluntary Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors.

On World Blood Cancer Day, the Federation of Cancer Patients’ Associations in Romania (FABC), the National Registry of Voluntary Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors and the Romanian Bone Marrow Transplant Society have an important message to convey: there is an urgent need for a large number of Romanians to register in the National Registry of Voluntary Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donors.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation means LIFE

Stem cells are considered the basic components of life and are the basis for the formation of any type of cell in the body. Hematopoietic stem cells are cells capable of transforming into any type of adult (functional) cell of the blood and immune system. These cells are found in the bone marrow and are harvested from adults from peripheral blood or from the bone marrow of large and wide bones, that is, from the pelvis, not from the spine, as many mistakenly believe.