[...] From Polite Indian’s Blog She needs a bone marrow donation from a Indian/South Asian donor. Since Indians are a minority race in USA, in the national marrow registry, there aren’t as many Indians registered and as a result, the possibility of a match is much less for patients of Indian origin. There’s no organized marrow registry in India either that we can look for a match in. [...]
August 23, 2006 at 9:23 pm
I am so glad that we r doing this, hope our readers go & see if they are a match.I have done the same too
August 23, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Yes Shankari. I am going to do the same this weekend in the Edison, NJ area.
I have also forwarded a chain email to whoever I know and hopefully somebody will be able to help.
August 27, 2006 at 5:02 am
Yesterday I got myself enrolled in the database. Let us hope for the best now
August 27, 2006 at 4:36 pm
[...] From Polite Indian’s Blog She needs a bone marrow donation from a Indian/South Asian donor. Since Indians are a minority race in USA, in the national marrow registry, there aren’t as many Indians registered and as a result, the possibility of a match is much less for patients of Indian origin. There’s no organized marrow registry in India either that we can look for a match in. [...]