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Bone marrow donation, or bone marrow harvesting, is the procedure healthcare providers use to obtain blood-forming cells (stem cells) for bone marrow transplant. Donating bone marrow doesn’t hurt and may cure someone who has blood cancer or a blood disorder.
We review the process and recovery for donating bone marrow or PBSC and answer some common questions.
Donating bone marrow stem cells requires agreeing to have stem cells drawn from either your blood or bone marrow to be given to someone else. This is known as a stem cell transplant, bone marrow transplant or hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
What are the requirements for being a bone marrow donor? To help increase the long-term survival rate of a bone marrow recipient, the National Marrow Donor Program prefers healthy donors who are 18 to 35 years old, although Dr. Hogan says that older donors can be an option in select circumstances.
Learn about donating bone marrow and stem cells through Dana-Farber Cancer Institute by looking at our Frequently Asked Questions. Categories of questions include finding a match, the donation process, and registering with NMDP's Be The Match Registry.
You may wonder how to donate, whether donating bone marrow or blood stem cells is painful, and what’s involved in bone marrow and stem cell transplantation procedures. Here’s what you need to know.
Learn how you donate bone marrow. NMDP explains the whole bone marrow donation process, the procedure for donors and the risks involved.
You might need a bone marrow transplant if your bone marrow stops working and does not produce enough healthy blood cells. Bone marrow transplants may use cells from your own body (autologous transplant) or from a donor (allogeneic transplant).
Marrow donation is a surgical procedure done in a hospital: You receive anesthesia. Doctors use special, hollow needles to withdraw liquid marrow from the back of your pelvic bones.
People with life-threatening cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma can be treated with a bone marrow transplant or, sometimes, a stem cell transplant. For this type of treatment, bone marrow is collected from a donor.