If you need a transplant and do not have a matching donor in your family, the National Marrow Donor Program provides an online public search of potential donors and cord blood units. And the National Cord Blood Program provides a similar search for cord blood units. Both these searches result in the number of potential matches.
Only a transplant center can determine if these potential matches are suitable and available. If you would like Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to be your transplant center, call Patricia Walka at 212-639-7431.
For both these online searches you will need your human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing lab report. You should ask your doctor for this report.
Below are links to the search resources on the Web sites of the National Marrow Donor Program and National Cord Blood Program:
