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• American Bone Marrow Donor Registry 'Will You Help?'
  "A small blood sample will tell if you can save a life."

• The National Marrow Donor Program'sŪ (NMDP) Web Information site
  "A source of hope for patients all over the world."
  • American Indian/Alaska Native Facts & Figures
    The Need For American Indian/Alaska Native Stem Cell Donors
  • KEEP THE CIRCLE STRONG by joining the NMDP Registry.
    American Indian/Alaska Native Initiative
  • Steps of Donation ~ First Step: Join the NMDP Registry
  • Mira's Month ~*~ Read Mira's Month Online
    By Deborah Weinstein-Stern - Illustrated by Beth Roy
    "Mira's month is colorfully illustrated book, designed
    for use with young children who have a parent with cancer
    who will be hospitalized for high-dose chemotherapy treatment.
    Mira's Month discusses the questions children have and the
    feelings they often experience during this stressful time.
    • NMDP Articles ~ News Releases
      • MINNEAPOLIS - National Marrow Donor Program Salutes
        American Indian/Alaska Native Volunteers Who Save Lives
        NMDP News Release for November, 18, 1998
      • MINNEAPLIS - National Marrow Donor Program Launches
        Major American Indian/Alaska Native Recruitment Initiative
        NMDP News Release for August, 28, 1996

• Blood & Marrow Transplant Newsletter Web Site "Blood &' Marrow Transplant Newsletter is a not-for-profit organization that provides publications and support services to bone marrow, peripheral blood stem cell, and cord blood transplant patients and survivors. All literature is written in lay language, and reviewed for accuracy by a team of medical experts from transplant centers throughout the US and Canada."
  • Bone Marrow Transplants 'Online Book of Basics For Patients' "A 157 page handbook that explains, in lay language, what's involved in going through a transplant, both physically and emotionally."

• National Marrow Donnor Program
  • Give Life Twice 'Minority Cord Blood Recruitment Initiative Launched'
    "Donated cord blood can be used to treat leukemia, severe aplastic anemia,
    lymphoma, sickle cell disease and more than 70 other life-threatening diseases."

• Blood and Marrow Transplant Program "Welcome to
  the Fairview-University Blood and Marrow Transplant
  Program, affiliated with the University of Minnesota."

• University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
  • Bone Marrow Transplants - A Book of Basics for Patients
    Posting Date: March 25, 1999 - Last Reviewed: November 1, 2001
    From Bone Marrow Transplants - A Book of Basics for Patients Reprinted by OncoLink with
    permission from BMT Newsletter. This version of the BMT Handbook was influenced by an
    earlier version by NYSERNet, Inc. through a grant funded by the New York State Science
    and Technology Foundation and is part of the Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse.
  • Mira's Month ~ by Deborah Weinstein-Stern
    Illustrated by Beth Roy ~ November 1, 2001
    Treatment Options ~ Bone Marrow Transplants ~ Support