China News Service, Guangzhou, July 6th (Cai Minjie and Pei Yang) Vice President of Guangdong Red Cross Wu Weida introduced on the 6th that as of now, Guangdong Province has accumulatively registered 110,000 volunteer donors for hematopoietic stem cell donation, and the cumulative data A total of 902 cases were donated, of which 21 cases were donated for patients from overseas in the United States, France, South Korea, etc. The total donation and storage capacity utilization rate ranked first in mainland China.
On the same day, three volunteers donated hematopoietic stem cells in Guangzhou and Shenzhen hospitals to rescue three children with blood diseases. The total number of non-blood related hematopoietic stem cell donations in Guangdong exceeded 900 in the mainland.
Leukemia is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system, commonly known as "blood cancer". The incidence of leukemia in the mainland is five in 100,000. There are more than 40,000 new cases every year, and more than half of them are adolescents and children. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is currently an effective treatment for leukemia, severe thalassemia and other diseases.
During the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic in the first half of this year, the donation of hematopoietic stem cells in Guangdong increased against the trend. Since this year, 84 volunteers have made donations, an increase of 17 cases and an increase of 26% compared with the same period last year.
Wu Weida said that Guangdong is a high incidence area of severe thalassemia, the incidence of leukemia is also very high, and clinical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is in high demand. At present, the China Bone Marrow Bank Guangdong Branch has more than 110,000 volunteer donors, but it still cannot meet the transplantation needs of clinical patients. In order to enable more patients to receive timely assistance, it is also necessary to continue to expand the database capacity and increase the utilization rate of the storage capacity. The Red Cross Society of Guangdong Province hopes that more healthy citizens of the appropriate age will join the ranks of volunteer donors.
In addition, in order to strengthen the care for caring donors and families in need, in 2020, the Guangdong Red Cross and Guangdong Chen Shaochang Charity Foundation established the Hemopoietic Stem Cell Donation Humanitarian Care Project Fund, which is used for the care and condolences of hematopoietic stem cell donors in Guangdong Province. , Hardship assistance, and popularization of science popularization, etc., so that more patients suffering from leukemia, severe thalassaemia and other patients in urgent need of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation can be treated. (Finish)