Marsh Regional Blood Center’s Kingsport collection center serves as a registration site for the National Marrow Donor Program in cooperation with its local affiliate in Johnson City, the Cooperative Appalachian Marrow Program – or CAMP.
Entry into the national bone marrow registry is a simple process, involving the completion of brief documentation and a buccal – or mouth – swab. Potential donors may then to be evaluated to determine whether they match a patient closely enough to donate marrow or cord blood.
Bone marrow and cord blood transplants are used every day to treat patients who have leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases. For many of these patients, a transplant may be the best and only hope of a cure.
For more information about entering the national bone marrow registry, please contact Marsh Regional at (423) 224-5888 or CAMP at (423) 854-5658.
