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36 Relay for Life participants register to become stem cell donors

The Canadian Blood Services One Match program recruits healthy people who are wiling to become a stem cell or marrow donor for non-relative patients.

 

Over the weekend, they were registering participants at Relay for Life.

 

Volunteer Barbara Henderson has more: "We had 36 people register with us on paper and we had probably 4 or 5 other people who said they would go online themselves. It was a real nice cross section of different ethnic groups, which is something they really needed so that was really good".

 

The volunteers are already planning for next year. They're in talks with Canadain Blood Services to have a blood drive next year instead, but it's still in the works.

 

People can register to become a stem cell donor at onematch.ca.

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