July 2017 – BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY ACTIVITY SUMMARY
33 lifesaving transplants
16 from personalized donor pools
2,546 total transplants
860,453 members in registry
Below are the donor pools that saved lives this month, and their total transplants. Continue reading Because of You!
Numbers are funny things. They look nice and neat, march in straight rows. They create groups (3 of these and 5 of those) and somehow make us feel that everything is under control. Until one personally finds herself in one of those groups – the wrong one. The one that people don’t like to mention. You know, the C word. Cancer.
That was me. The C monster opened its mouth and grabbed me right before my trip to South America. I had been planning it for months but it wasn’t going to be. I gave myself a compensation prize of some amazing tours in different countries but in between, I toured hospitals.
It was on the big trip to New Zealand, exactly a year ago. Right in the middle of a fantastic trek, when, dressed in a sunhat and attempting to conquer some mountain, I fell apart. I could barely do the last part of the trail, because my body started to weaken. They started doing all kinds of tests. Continue reading Cancer on Its Way Out! Happy Two-Year Birthday to Me! by Shir Tahar
MAY 2017 – BMDR ACTIVITY SUMMARY
28 lifesaving transplants
15 from personalized donor pools (see below)
2,491 total transplants
856,665 members in registry Continue reading Because of You!
April 2017 – BMDR ACTIVITY SUMMARY
31 lifesaving transplants
21 from personalized donor pools
2,463 total transplants
856,257 members in registry
Below are the donor pools that saved lives this month, and their total transplants.
Alan Cohen Donor Pool – 76 lives saved
David & Sara Farajun Donor Pool – 79 lives saved – 5 this month!
Tommy & Yehudit Farkas Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Hole In One Donor Pool – 20 lives saved – 2 this month!
Leora Kuhillow Donor Pool – 9 lives saved
Manny & Mojdeh Malekan Donor Pool 
– 1 life saved
Irving & Cherna Moskowitz Donor Pool – 21 lives saved
Ronald O. Perelman Donor Pool – 28 lives saved
Rolf & Ruth Redlauer Donor Pool – 6 lives saved
Dudu & Chagit Saada Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Alan & Nicole Samson Donor Pool – 7 
lives saved
Ephriam & Devora Schreiber Donor Pool – 1 life saved
Farzad & Sheila Shahery Donor Pool – 2 lives saved
Shva Company Donor Pool – 5 lives saved
Wiener, Widawsky, Rebenwurzel Donor Pool in memory of Shmuel and Yaffa Herman – 1 life saved
Marjorie & Arnold Ziff Donor Pool (Anne Manning’s Donor Pool) – 1 life saved
Does Ezer Mizion provide transplants to Israel residents only?
Ezer Mizion receives Search Requests from oncology clinics around the globe. DNA matching is based on ethnics. As the largest Jewish Registry in the world, Ezer Mizion is the natural address for an oncology clinic working with a Jewish patient in Europe, Russia, South Africa, South America, Australia, Canada and the US.
In April 2017, 14 of 31 transplants were done for Israeli residents and 17 for countries around the world including 6 in US and Canada.
Did the partnership with the IDF create any significant change in the success of finding DNA matches?
Due to IDF recruits being young and healthy, they remain on the database for decades, thus greatly increasing the chances of eventually being found to be a match for a patient. In addition, they come from highly varied backgrounds resulting in much increased representation among minority ethnic groups.
In April 2017, 18 of the 21 transplants funded by donor pools are IDF recruits, some having been inducted and joined the registry just a few months ago.
How long, on the average, does it take for a new Bone Marrow Donor Pool to receive the at long awaited letter: You have saved a life!
There can, of course, be no guarantees. In April of 2017, 4 of the 21 transplants funded by donor pools were opened within the last half year.
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OUR AMAZING 21ST CENTURY
Medical science has made great strides with illnesses that, not too long ago, afforded very little hope for the patient. In some cases, even the ‘man on the street’ has become part of the remedy. Bone marrow transplants are a case in point. Bone marrow transplants have become the cure for a wide variety of life-threatening diseases ranging from many types of cancer to immunodeficiency syndromes and anemias.
WHAT IS BONE MARROW? Continue reading What Are Bone Marrow Transplants?
In recent years, a bone marrow transplant has been proven to be the cure for a myriad of diseases. Many forms of cancer including leukemia and lymphoma in addition to other diseases such as sickle cell anemia and SCID are only some of the life-threatening illnesses that have bowed to its power. Like penicillin, a bone marrow transplant can save lives. But unlike penicillin, it cannot simply be purchased at the local pharmacy.
WHY NOT? Continue reading Ezer Mizion and The IDF: A Life-Saving Partnership
Everyone dreams about it. Very few ever have the opportunity. I was one of those very few. True, I didn’t jump into the ocean and save a child from drowning or dash into a burning building to save a baby but I did save a life. A forty-year-old cancer patient had only one chance to survive—a bone marrow transplant. A genetic match is vital for success and I was that genetic match. An Ezer Mizion staff member asked me if I would do it. Would I do it???! How could I not do it?! How could I live the rest of my life knowing that because of a little discomfort, a little inconvenience, a young woman was prevented from living the rest of hers? Continue reading Saving a Life: The See-Saw Remains on Up
Summary as of March 2017
31 lifesaving transplants
16 from personalized donor pools
2,432 total transplants
848,029 members in registry
Below are the donor pools that saved lives this month, and their total transplants. Continue reading Because of You!
In her early sixties, Chava was a young grandmother to seven grandchildren. She was looking forward to many milestones in the future until she discovered that her future was very uncertain indeed. Twelve years ago, she had been diagnosed with lymphoma. A self-transplant of stem cells resulted in a cure and the nightmare seemed to be over until several years later the disease returned. Would there be a cure this time? Only if a transplant can be performed using the stem cells of a genetically matching donor. The procedure was not difficult but finding this mysterious donor whose DNA corresponded to hers seemed to be nothing short of miraculous. He could be any place where Jews of her ethnic group have settled…South America, Canada, US, Australia, Europe. Anywhere. The first step was to contact Ezer Mizion, the largest Jewish registry in the world with its database of over 800,000 potential donors. And, lo and behold, there he was, right there in Israel. Continue reading Watching the Grandchildren Grow Up…Together: A DNA Success Story
