Stem Cells
This percentage of patients will find a stem cell match within their family.
What is 25%?
This blood type is the universal blood donor
What is O-?
Collected plasma has two main purposes.
What are medications/transfusions?
The minimum weight needed to donate blood or plasma.
What is 50 kgs/110lbs?
A person with this disease, characterized by a malignant growth, requires up to 5 blood donations.
What is cancer?
The most significant impact of a successful stem cell transplant on a patient's health.
What is the cure or significant improvement of a life-threatening disease?
This is the most common blood type in Canada.
What is O+?
This is the name of the process used to obtain plasma from blood.
What is plasmapheresis?
The deferral period for acupuncture, piercings, and tattoos.
What is 3 months?
Someone suffering from leukemia may need up to 8 donations per this unit of time.
What is one week?
Two reasons a patient may require a stem cell transplant.
What are treatment plans for blood related cancers, treating bone marrow disorders affecting the immune system?
This blood type is the universal recipient.
This percentage of blood is plasma.
What is 55%?
The deferral period for pregnant individuals.
What is six months after childbirth?
Heart surgery patients need up to this many blood donors.
What is 5 donors?
A common myth around stem cell donation that Canadian Blood Services aims to dispel.
What is "stem cell donation is a risky and painful process"?
This kind of membrane protein is responsible for different blood types.
What are antigens?
Number of plasma centers in Canada.
What is 8?
The deferral period for individuals who have received any blood products.
What is six months?
This sort of "accident" may need up to 50 blood donors.
What is a car crash/accident?
What is "improving the chances of finding matching donors for patients from various ethnic backgrounds"?
This “factor” shares its name with a species of monkey and is responsible for the positive and negative blood types.
What is Rhesus/Rh?
There are 3 main categories of proteins that are isolated from plasma.
What are Immune globulin (Ig), Albumin, Coagulation factors?
Individuals can donate platelets every ___.
What is 14 days/2 weeks?
Coagulation factors, found in plasma, can be used to treat these kinds of disorders.
What are bleeding disorders?