Doctors save our lives every day!
Now it’s our chance to give back and save one of them!
Dr.
Shireen Obaid Qureshi lives in Toronto with her husband and three
children. She was diagnosed with acute Leukemia (type AML 2) in December
2010 and upon receiving this life changing news she started to undergo
treatment at the Sunnybrook Hospital.
She
is going through her third session of Chemotherapy and is now in
remission; however she still requires a bone marrow transplant and is
actively seeking a donor match. Right now over 800 Canadian patients
are in desperate need of a stem cell to treat potentially
life-threatening illnesses and they depend on the generosity of people
like you. 70% of stem cell matches come from the unrelated search
(outside the family) provided by the One Match Stem Cell and Marrow
Network in Canada.
Currently over 266,000 donors are on the
registry. We need more registrants so that we can meet the needs of
patients. To this effect we are holding an OneMatch Registration
/Buccal Swab event on April 30th in the Scarborough area in hopes of
finding a stem cell match for Shireen and all the other patients waiting
to have their lives saved. You could be the match the Shireen and her
family has been praying for!
Will you take the opportunity to better their lives?
How can you help? Take the following simple steps:
Register to take a test
Simple, painless cheek swab test can be done in the privacy of your own home if you:
• Order a swab kit online at www.onematch.ca
• Or call 1-888-2 DONATE
• Or at the live event on April 30th.
Anyone between ages 17-50 can donate
Gender and blood type are not important.
A
special request for all South Asian community (Pakistani /Indian/
Bangladeshi/ Sri Lankan) to participate in the case of Shireen, since
ethnicity is an important factor in finding a match.
If a donor is approved (once qualified after testing), he/she will be required to:
• Either donate blood, from which the stem cells will be derived
• Or provide a sample of the bone marrow, from which the stem cells will be derived.
The prospective donor will have the right to refuse to donate any sample at all.
Interested in participating?
Come
out to our Swab Sampling Event to show your support and swab your cheek
to see if you too could be a match and save a life.
It would be like winning the lottery for the patients, and you may have the power to grant it to them.
