Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hospital Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Center will hold an idea festival on September 9th and December 9th at Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu City, to exchange ideas for increasing the number of registered donors for the bone marrow bank. open.
According to Hamamatsu University Hospital, in September participants will be given an explanation of how the bone marrow bank works and the current situation of a shortage of registered young donors. Group work results will be announced in December.
Participants are students from universities, junior colleges, and vocational schools.Participation is free, but advance registration is required from the hospital website.Members of the general public are also welcome to attend if they apply in advance.However, if there are many people who want to participate, admission may be restricted.
About 1 people in Japan develop blood diseases such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, and malignant lymphoma each year.Such patients need bone marrow transplantation, in which hematopoietic stem cells that make blood and peripheral blood stem cells are transplanted from healthy individuals.
The transplantation requires matching white blood cell types between the patient and the donor.The probability is only 4 in 1 among siblings and 1 in tens of thousands among unrelatives, and securing as many donors as possible is required.However, nearly 6% of donors are over 40 years old.Donors are deregistered at the age of 55, so the number of donors is expected to decrease as the population continues to decline.
