Patient Services :: Drive-based Testing

Candidates for bone marrow and other stem cell transplants have a number of options for finding a suitable marrow donor. If a match is not found among the patient's family members or in the various unrelated marrow donor registries, another option is to conduct patient focused community and corporate-based donor drives.  These can be successful in identifying suitable stem cell donors.

Kashi Clinical Laboratories' Bone Marrow Services group can provide expert counsel on organizing patient-focused, private or community based marrow donor drives, including:

• Assisting families in identifying viable community resources and laying the foundation for focused community or corporate drives
• Assisting marrow donor centers and recruitment groups with focused efforts to educate and recruit volunteer stem cell donors
• Identifying successful practices for educating and attracting marrow donors
• Formulating community awareness campaigns
• Planning effective use of the media and National Calendar of Drives to alert the community of the need
• Providing phlebotomy services and HLA testing supplies for drive-based testing
• Securing funding assistance

For more information about Patient-focused or Community Drive-Based Testing please email us at: info@kashilab.com