GREENSBORO – Each year, thousands of people are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases that require a bone marrow transplant to live, but 70 percent do not have a donor in their family to depend on.

Eight-year-old Trevor Davis was assessed with a very rare illness called serious aplastic anemia, and if medications don’t work, he will likely need a bone marrow transplant.

“His bone marrow isn’t manufacturing the sorts of cells that folks who don’t have that diagnosis produce each day. So without those cells, it’s very hard to be able to live normally,” Vivian Shidler, manager of the Clinical Research Development at Moses Cone Cancer Center, said.

But most of the people who want a marrow transplant for survival are only able to get it thru a not related donor. So in a plan to get more folks to sign up, Moses Cone Infirmary held a free bone marrow donor program registration Thursday.

The process only takes one minute and you might at last save a life. And if you qualify as a match, the donation process for some can be very like giving blood.

For additional information on the nation’s Marrow Donor Program, visit Celebrity Breast Cancer Survivors website

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