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​Please stop by our Stem Cell / Marrow Donor Drive on Saturday, June 3, from 9-1 at Tunxis Mead Park

Please stop by our Stem Cell / Marrow Donor Drive on Saturday, June 3, from 9-1 at Tunxis Mead Park. Donors ages 18-44 are asked to swab their cheeks so that they can be nationally registered. It takes 5 minutes.

Donating stem cells is minimally invasive to the donor and potentially life saving to the recipient. There are 14,000 patients in need of a transplant and 70% of them do not have a matching donor in their family.

Register to see if you can Be The Match!Can't come by? Register online to receive a swab kit in the mail: ribc.org/BeTheMatch, promo code: EncourageEric.

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