Stem cell donor registries can increase donor loyalty by maintaining strong ties, according to a major study of the world’s largest donor organisation.
The organisation in the study, DKMS, has 12 million donors in Germany, the UK, the USA, Poland, South Africa, Chile, and India.
Once a potential donor has been matched with a patient in need of a stem cell transplant, possibly years after they first registered, the potential donor is contacted for confirmatory HLA typing. However, at this stage, around one in five donors become unavailable or reluctant to go through with the donation process. The study aimed to find out how to counteract this effect.
The results showed that donors who were asked to submit a fresh blood sample at a time af...
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