Filipino bone marrow donors needed

Posted on May 16 2006

I would like to ask if you could kindly help distribute this information throughout your organization and your local communities. My second cousin Christine is a young Filipina woman who is dying from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her only chance of survival is to find a bone marrow donor whose marrow matches hers.

We are urgently asking anyone of Filipino descent to visit www.savechristine.com. There is a link for a free self-test kit for the National Marrow Donor Program. I just received my self-test kit today in the mail, and it simply involved swabbing the inside of my cheeks. It’s easy and painless.

There is also a video from Christine that I think you should see. Filipinos are the most underrepresented minority on the National Registry. There are hundreds of Filipinos just like Christine who are literally dying because of this lack of donors. Please, please help.

Mac Feliciano
via e-mail

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