NMDP/Be The Match Calls for the Quick Passage of the TRANSPLANT Act
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Former US Marine Corps sergeant and law enforcement officer Christopher Throgmorton leverages on his military experience to serve as a public safety training officer at Covered 6. Christopher "Chris" Throgmorton supports the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match.
The Timely Re-Authorization of Necessary Stem-cell Programs Lends Access to Needed Therapies (TRANSPLANT) Act is critical legislation that, if passed, would reauthorize the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program (Program) and the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI) before its original authorization expires by the end of 2020.
The Program and NCBI have been providing access to bone marrow, cord blood, and peripheral blood stem cell transplant to patients with blood disorders and certain blood cancers. The only treatment available for these diseases is through transplants. Reauthorizing the Program and NCBI as early as now assures the beneficiaries that their access to this life-saving treatment will continue.
NMDP/Be The Match was tasked by the US Congress to operate the Program and NCBI since the mid-1980s. Since then, NMDP/Be The Match was able to facilitate close to 100,000 transplants, giving patients with blood disorders and fatal blood cancers second chances to live.
NMDP/Be The Match urges the members of the US Congress to quickly pass the TRANSPLANT Act so that the Program and increase the number of donors and cord blood units, affording every American who needs transplant higher chances of finding a match.
The Timely Re-Authorization of Necessary Stem-cell Programs Lends Access to Needed Therapies (TRANSPLANT) Act is critical legislation that, if passed, would reauthorize the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program (Program) and the National Cord Blood Inventory (NCBI) before its original authorization expires by the end of 2020.
The Program and NCBI have been providing access to bone marrow, cord blood, and peripheral blood stem cell transplant to patients with blood disorders and certain blood cancers. The only treatment available for these diseases is through transplants. Reauthorizing the Program and NCBI as early as now assures the beneficiaries that their access to this life-saving treatment will continue.
NMDP/Be The Match was tasked by the US Congress to operate the Program and NCBI since the mid-1980s. Since then, NMDP/Be The Match was able to facilitate close to 100,000 transplants, giving patients with blood disorders and fatal blood cancers second chances to live.
NMDP/Be The Match urges the members of the US Congress to quickly pass the TRANSPLANT Act so that the Program and increase the number of donors and cord blood units, affording every American who needs transplant higher chances of finding a match.
