WELCOME TO BECOME MY HERO - DO YOU NEED A STEM CELL DONOR?
If you or someone you know has a disease, such as leukemia, sickle cell anemia, multiple sclerosis or lupus, we want to help. More specifically, if a bone marrow transplant is needed to treat your disease but you can't find a suitable match in a donor registry, you have come to the right place.
Become My Hero finds cord blood donors for anyone in imminent danger of dying because they need a bone marrow transplant to survive but can't find a donor in a registry.
Our mission was created following the death of our founder's daughter who died from the complications of a partially matched bone marrow transplant two years after receiving a cord blood transplant to initially treat her leukemia.
We complement the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) and other registries in that their mission is to increase the number of donors for the general public while our mission is to find a donor for a specific person that the registry cannot help and to educate expectant mothers and fathers about the benefits of donating or privately storing their cord blood.
Our goal is to help those that fall between the cracks of a system that is intended to help everyone by making it possible to focus on the unique needs of anyone.
Less than 1% of all stem cell transplants were done using cord blood in 2008. Today, it's more than 28%.
We offer the nation’s only NMDP approved national cord blood collection system, and not only have the ability to collect cord blood from any of America’s more than 11,000 daily births but also from many of world’s nearly 500,000 daily births. |
