‘People need it’: Colorado blood cancer survivor urges Americans to consider bone marrow donation

“The first place that we look for a potential donor is a patient’s sibling,” explained Marc Schwartz, a hematologist at the UCHealth Bone Marrow Transplant Clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “On average, however, about 70% of patients do not have a fully matched sibling donor. So the next step is to look at an international registry for matched unrelated donors.”