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    ARMENIAN BONE MARROW REGISTER HAS 14,000 DONORS

    ARMENPRESS
    Jan 8, 2008

    YEREVAN, JANUARY 8, ARMENPRESS: The Yolian blood transfusion center
    in Yerevan has 1,500 registered donors, not counting hundreds of
    volunteers who are students, doctors and members of their families.

    The Armenian Bone Marrow Register has now 14,000 donors. Its manager
    Rubina Ghazarian said to Armenpress they helped to perform two
    bone marrow transplantation operations, one in USA and the second
    in Germany.

    Armenians have a unique genetic structure of bone marrow. Therefore,
    probability of finding matches for transplantation is higher among
    Armenians.

    Transplantation is the last hope for survival for people with blood
    diseases, most of who are children.

    The probability of survival by transplantation is 40-50 per cent
    among adults and 60-70 per cent among children.

    The Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Charitable Trust was founded in
    July 1998 in Armenia as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental
    and independent organization. Its mission is to save precious
    Armenian lives by creating a bone marrow donor registry which, with
    the volunteer recruitment of Armenian donors worldwide, will increase
    the pool of existing international donors and thus give a chance of
    survival to patients with Leukemia or other blood related diseases.

    The Trust's honorary chairperson is the First Lady of the Republic
    of Armenia, Dr. Bella Kocharian and the chairperson is Dr. Frieda
    Jordan, a biochemist whose expertise is the establishment of bone
    marrow registries.

    The Register has obtained a stem cell harvester which separates blood
    cells necessary for transplantation operation.
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