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A blood cancer diagnosis is a shock and often marks the start of a race against time. For many patients, their only chance of survival is to find a matching bone marrow or blood stem cell donor as quickly as possible. This at the heart of the DKMS mission - to find matching donors for every patient.

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A blood cancer diagnosis is a shock and often marks the start of a race against time. For many patients, their only chance of survival is to find a matching blood stem cell donor, as fast as possible.
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What is human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing?
Donor Eligibility Requirements
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A potential match
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A potential match
If your HLA typings are identified as a match for a patient in need of a lifesaving transplant, our staff will contact you immediately.
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I'm a Match
What to expect from a briefing call
Health questionnaire
Confirmatory typing
Get ready to save a life! But how long will it all take?
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From now on, every day counts  – because in many cases, patients need their stem cell transplants to happen as soon as they possibly can.
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Where and when you donate
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Preliminary health check and consent to donation
Medical clearance for the donor
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Stem cell donation
There are two different ways to donate stem cells: peripheral stem cell donation, and bone marrow donation.
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Peripheral blood stem cell collection
Bone Marrow Donation Guide: Everything You Need to Know
Transportation of stem cells
Potential second donations
T-Cell donation
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After the donation
After your stem cell donation, we ask you to take part in a donor follow-up. This helps us to keep a close eye on your well-being.
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Long-Term Donor Follow-Up
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How is my patient?
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How is my patient?
After the donation, new questions keep coming up - most of them revolve around the recipient of the stem cells. How is he or she doing? Is it possible to get in touch or even get to know each other personally?
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How is my Patient Doing?
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How is my patient?
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As the world’s leading blood stem cell donor center, we are constantly improving our quality standards.
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If you are a potential match for a patient, what happens next?
If your human leukocyte antigens (HLA) is found to match a patient, you will be contacted by a member of the DKMS team. The donor management team member may reach out via email, phone call, text message, and letter to share the news and to kick-off this exciting process.
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Preparing to donate
After confirmatory typing, you are probably excited to know if you will be called to move forward. So are we!
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Your donation - Preparation and procedures
You're ready to move forward and donate! You will be giving a patient the greatest gift of all: a second chance at life.
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Follow Up After Your Donation
You are important to us and we want to make sure you are doing well after your donation. After your stem cell or bone marrow donation, we will ask you to take part in donor follow-up to help keep a close eye on your well-being and walk you through recovery.
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Contact with the Patient
For many donors, the main concern post-donation is for the recipient of the stem cell transplant and may wish to have contact with their recipient. Sometimes anonymous or direct contact is allowed, but it depends upon the rules of the recipient’s transplant center and country.
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The most common method of stem cell removal is peripheral stem cell collection, which is used in around 80 percent of cases. Here, stem cells are obtained from the blood by a special procedure called apheresis.
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Where and when you donate
Your health is always our top priority. That’s why we work with highly specialized, certified, and experienced collection centers located at hospitals or blood centers.
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We cover your costs
DKMS will cover any costs incurred in connection with your stem cell donation or preliminary health check, within defined limits.
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You can support the DKMS in many ways and thus give new hope for life to many blood cancer patients.
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