for the tl;dr crowd:
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Originally Posted by Rygel XXV
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If anyone else has read this far, please, please, please join the marrow registry, particularly if you're an ethnic minority, even more particularly if you have an Asian background. Evidently there are a lot of hangups about this kind of procedure in the Asian and Asian American communities, so the registry is woefully short on matches since they depend on DNA.
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Great thing you are doing, and like Rygel says, they need donors. It is also REALLY REALLY hard to match people with mixed ethnic backgrounds, so the more varied or unique your background is, the more likely it is that you are a rare match for somebody who is otherwise SOL. Too bad that they are so busy giving the 1% another tax break - I'd like to see a massive deduction for anybody who is even on the registry, let alone willing to donate (and more money for education and recruitment).