Cheekswab

09/03/2021

As an African American, Jordan only has a 28% chance of finding a bone marrow donor.

Text 4TWIN to 61474 to begin the easy process of registering online, swabbing your cheeks, and committing to help any patient in need. You just might be his perfect match.

H.O.P.E ( Helping other patients Everywhere)

09/01/2021

Minorities have a significantly lower likelihood of finding the perfect donor match on the bone marrow registry.

Yun Keun is a Korean man diagnosed with histiocytic sarcoma, an extremely rare blood cancer. Please consider joining the registry to see if you could be his perfect match. Read Yun's story and learn how easy it is to join here:

www.swabforyunkeun.com

Yun Keun needs your help.Enter the bone marrow registry to save a life. Request a Swab Kit from BeTheMatch Yun’s Story Yun Keun (fondly referred to as “Yuhn”) is a husband, brother, son, uncle, cousin, friend, cook, basketball fan, and so much more. He was recently diagnosed with the extremely...

08/23/2021

03/04/2019

Liyna Anwar is looking for a bone marrow donor, and celebrities like Mindy Kaling and Hasan Minhaj have recently shared her story to highlight the need for South Asian potential bone marrow donors. Click, watch, and share! You, or someone you know, could save someone's life by joining the registry.

A journalist's search for a bone marrow match that shares her South Asian ethnicity is highlighting the need for more diverse donors in the registry.

01/31/2019

Patients in need of bone marrow donations rely on the commitment of potential donors. Keep an eye out for emails like this one that ask if you are still committed to donating if needed! All it takes is one click to help keep the registry updated and accurate.

For more information about committing to the bone marrow registry, visit https://www.cheekswab.org/join-the-registry/commitment/

10/14/2018

Thank you to Hope East Queens for hosting us this morning. Cheekswab isn’t possible without the venues who are willing to host us and we’re grateful for the opportunity to share our story and mission with you.

Like I shared this morning, this was the first speaking event since our son was born about 8 months ago. For about a year Cheekswab has been on a bit of a hiatus, but both Eunice and I are excited to do more events moving forward.

For those who were at service today, these were the steps to registration I outlined during my talk:

1. EDUCATE yourself about bone marrow donation. The need, the procedures, the medical requirements, the commitment. https://www.cheekswab.org and https://www.bethematch.org are great resources to do so.

2. COMMIT to the full donor commitment before you decide to join the registry. If you can’t commit, please do not register.

3. REGISTER online via the online registration form via http://join.cheekswab.org

4. JOIN via completing and returning the swab kit mailed to your house by BeTheMatch. The swab kit should arrive in roughly ~5 business days after completing online registration. Once BeTheMatch receives your swab kit it should take ~6 weeks to process, after which they’ll notify you of your successful registration.

5. SHARE with friends and family about your commitment. Dispel any myths about bone marrow registration in every conversation for the rest of your life. Tell others how and why you’ve joined the lottery to save a life!

Thanks! A lack of minority bone marrow donors is a problem that can be solved in our lifetimes. The more of us who understand the commitment and join the more this problem goes away for all of us.

06/22/2018

Almost a year after Hayden walked up to the table on the Auburn campus, she got a phone call from a coordinator with Be the Match. Hayden, then 23, was a match for a baby girl with leukemia.

“I had been struggling for a while; I had changed my major,” Hayden said. “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life and my career. I was feeling really down about everything. I was having trouble finding myself and feeling like I had a purpose. So, the more that I talked to this coordinator with Be the Match, I started feeling like what if this is my purpose?”

Dressed in her wedding gown, Hayden Hatfield knelt in front of a 3-year-old girl with dark hair and eyes and handed her a gift box wrapped in a pink ribbon.

06/11/2018

"Several years ago a Montgomery County teenager needed a bone marrow transplant. But she was Asian American, and Asian Americans often struggle to find donors because they're underrepresented on the registry.

And then someone stepped up."

Three years ago, Carly Nguyen didn't know if she would find a bone marrow match as she struggled with leukemia. Asian Americans are underrepresented in the donor registry. On Friday, she met the donor, Gerard Bao, who saved her life. News4's Aimee Cho shows the emotional moment Nguyen got to thank h...

05/03/2018

Visit https://join.bethematch.org/marrow17 to be a chance to match for Jenny and others, present and future, that are desperately seeking bone marrow matches!

Friends, this post is a plea for help. Jenny, the mother in this picture, here with her husband and her 6 and 13-year-old daughters, just last week was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). She is a dear family friend and we are desperate to help her. Without a bone marrow transplant, ALL can be fatal in a few months. Jenny is Korean and, apparently, the national registry of marrow donors just does not have very many Koreans in it. Jenny’s doctors have suggested that it is unlikely she will find a match. If you are Korean and willing to help, all you need to do is sign up on the registry website and a kit will be sent to you so you can perform a simple swab on the inside of your cheek with a Q-tip. If a match, the donation procedure would essentially be a simple blood draw. Please share this and reach out to me if you or someone you know is willing to sign-up for the registry and do the cheek swab to determine if there is a match. Please help us save this mother’s life. 🙏❤️

https://join.bethematch.org/hope4jenny

04/25/2018

If you're not already on the bone marrow registry you could be a match for Ji-eun!

Please help get the word out to all the potential life-saving donors out there.

02/06/2018

In summer of 2016, she got a call from Be the Match, the same organization that swabbed her cheek three years earlier, asking if she was still willing to help save a life.

CLEARWATER —For more than a year, Nick Vojnovic didn't know the name of the person who saved his life. He knew she was in her early 20s. A woman. But he didn't know where she lived, why she made this