The Facts of Death
Fact: Every FIVE minutes, someone is diagnosed with blood cancer.
Fact: Every TEN minutes, blood cancer takes a life.
Fact: Leukemia is the most common disease children in the U.S. die from
Fact: Only 3 out of 10 patients will receive the transplant that could save their lives
The Facts of Life
More than 11.5 million people are registered worldwide, but not all patients will find their life-saver.
Maybe YOU can be the one person to change this. Here’s how you can help:
· Register as a bone marrow donor with DKMS
· Organize a bone marrow donor drive in your community, at your office or school
· Fundraise
· Make a monetary contribution
· Spread the word – Refer family members and friends to register with DKMS
Learn about other ways you can help.
About Katharina Harf, The Spirit of DKMS
At the young age of fourteen, Katharina Harf lost her mother to acute leukemia. Katharina wanted to help make a difference in the lives of other families, so they would not have to go through the heartache and pain she experienced after losing her mother.
In 1991, Katharina’s father, Peter Harf, founded DKMS - in Germany - to help save the lives of leukemia and other blood cancer patients by recruiting life-saving bone marrow donors. In just five years, DKMS became the world’s largest bone marrow donor center, and today still holds this distinction with a growing database of over 1.8 million registered donors. Since its inception, DKMS has matched more than 16,000 donors with patients.
In 2004, Katharina and her father expanded the DKMS mission to the United States, to diversify the donor. Currently, only 3 out of 10 patients will receive the transplant that could save their lives. But until every child and adult survives blood cancer, our work is not done.
DKMS wants to continue to give hope to other patients and their families and we need YOUR help. Together we can provide hope. Together we can provide a cure. Together we can make a difference.
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Maria La Gamba
Donor Retention and Communications
DKMS Americas
33 East 33rd Street, Suite 501
NY, NY 10016