NMDP General Knowledge
This was the previous name of NMDP.
What is Be The Match?
This is the percentage (%) of financial responsibility nmdp will cover for a donor.
What is 100%?
NMDP treats over 500 different types of cancer.
What is false?
This organ pumps blood through the body.
What is the heart?
This is the amount of time recommended to swab the inside of your cheek once you agree to join the registry
What is 10- 20 seconds
This is the amount of community service hours that are required to be completed to receive a cord for graduation.
What is 20?
The registry is made up of this percent of black people.
What is 8%?
You can donate even if you have the sickle cell trait.
True?
This part of your body produces healthy blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
This is where bone marrow is extracted from during the donation
What is your hip
This is the chance that an African American has to find a match on the registry(Percentage).
What is 29%?
This characteristic will largely determine who you donate to.
What is race?
The official colors of nmdp are blue and green.
What is false? Blue, Green, White, and Purple
These types of blood cells fight illness within the body.
What are white blood cells?
This is the number to text "Morehouse Chapter" to in order to join the registry
What is 61474?
These are the two types of donations that may be completed when an individual is called on the registry.
What is
Peripheral Blood Steam Cell Donation
Bone Marrow Donation?
This is the amount of time you must wait to meet the person you donated to.
What is 1 year?
NMDP is privately funded.
What is false? (Funded by Congress).
This is the type of bone marrow being pulled during a bone marrow transplantation.
What is liquid bone marrow?
This is the U.S. president that announced the collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and NMDP
Who is Barack Obama
You will be on the registry till this age.
What is 61?
This is how long (in weeks) the donation process takes from the initial call to transplantation.
What is 4-6 weeks (20-30 hours spread between doctor visits, tests, and donation)?
The original National Marrow Donor program was launched in 1972.
These are the types of cells we are taking from the cheek during a swab (must give full name).
What are Human Leukocyte Antigen tissues (HLA tissues)?
This is the probability of black people being born with sickle cell
What is 1 in every 365 people