TRUE OR FALSE? You can only donate to a member of your own family FALSE: Only 30% of patients needing a transplant will find a matching donor from within their own family, generally from a sibling. 75% of people who need a bone marrow transplant have to rely on the kindness of a stranger to save their life. TRUE OR FALSE? You have to be the same blood group as the patient to be amatching donor FALSE: Matching is performed by tissue type not blood group. However, some patients do take on the blood group of their donor, post transplant. TRUE OR FALSE? Donating bone marrow is painful FALSE: People who have donated compared the after-effects to a hard game of football. Many donors find the experience fulfilling and for some, life changing. TRUE OR FALSE? You have to be dead to donate bone marrow FALSE: All donations come from live donors.
Blood Diamond star David Harewood's donation video-
