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Lifehacker podcast: why people become bone marrow donors and how to do it
Miscellaneous / / October 18, 2023
We tell you who can become a donor and what methods of donation exist in medicine.
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In some diseases, malfunctions in the functioning of the bone marrow occur, and the patient requires a transplant from a donor who matches him genetically. If it is not done on time, tumor cells will replace healthy ones and the person may die. In this episode, we talk about how the ideal donor is selected and share the story of a person who has already become one.
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Finding the perfect donor-recipient pair is not so easy. Chance of matching genotypes amounts to 1 in 100,000. IN Federal Register More than 204 thousand people have already become bone marrow donors. But it is important that it expands, because Russia has many ethnic groups for which it is not easy to find a match in international databases. The more blood samples there are in the Federal Register, the higher the likelihood that each patient will find their donor.
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