How You Can Help
By learning more from these organizations, you can help save a life.
Become a Donor
Go to www.blood.ca/ > Click on Stem Cells for Life > Click Register to donate Stem Cells > Follow the next 7 easy steps!
- Read the information
- Take the 10 question test on the information you just read
- Create a profile on ca and click Register Now to become a Stem Cell Donor
- Complete the personal health questionnaire
- Consent
- You will now be sent a swab kit in the mail to collect your DNA sample by cheek swab!
- Mail back swab kit (postage is paid for), and wait to save a life! 🙂
Click this link and scroll down to find the rules in your province:
For example:
Ontario:
Get health care card with number, be 16+ years of age, head to this page!
Alberta:
By clicking this link you will be directed to the organ and tissue donation website:
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Click this link to join the Be The Match organization for the USA.
Click this link to join the British Bone Marrow Registry!
Hospitals and Organizations
- Stollery Children’s Hospital: Where I was first diagnosed with Leukemia and did treatment in 2008 and 2011.
- Canadian Blood Services
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St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital: Run solely on donations, I was treated here from 2012 – 2015 with chemo, radiation, and my two bone marrow transplants
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Seattle Children’s Hospital: Where I received my CAR T cell therapy
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University of Alberta Hospital: Where I was treated post bone marrow transplant and for lung GVHD
- Cross Cancer Institute: Treatment for post cancer care and bone marrow transplant follow up
- Toronto General Hospital: Where I am currently being treated for my lung transplant
- Canadian Organ Donation
- Trillium Gift of Life: The Government of Ontario agency responsible for organ and tissue donation
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