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Lifesaving facts

  • The number of volunteer unrelated donors on the Anthony Nolan Register is increasing every year.At the end of 2007, there were 390,000 donors on the Register.
  • The number of donations provided from Anthony Nolan Trust donors per year is also increasing.
  • 2007 was a record year with 368 volunteer unrelated Anthony Nolan donors providing haematopoietic stem cells for patients in need of a transplant.
  • Of the 368 donations in 2007, 223 went to patients in the British Isles (UK and Ireland), and an additional 145 were donated to overseas patients.
  • An additional 43 donors provided lymphocytes for patients.

Register size and number of donations

  • The Anthony Nolan Trust also imports donations from overseas donors for patients within the United Kingdom.
  • In 2007 we imported 241 volunteer adult haematopoietic stem cell donations, 20 lymphocyte donations and 77 cord blood donations.

Number of donations facilitated by The Anthony Nolan Trust