title: Marrow donor registry and cord blood bank in Taiwan.
abstract: Unrelated Bone marrow transplant was initiated thirty years ago. Though there are over millions of donors registered with the bone marrow registries worldwide, Asian patients rarely find a match with all these donors. Tzu Chi Marrow Donor Registry was established to meet this need. It has become the largest Asian marrow donor registry in the world. With the introduction of high technology to test the HLA of the donors and recipients, the success rate of bone marrow transplant is greatly improved among Asian countries. 50% of blood disease Asian patients who cannot find a bone marrow matched donor will be complemented by the establishment of cord blood banks in Taiwan.
authors.affiliation: Tzu Chi Marrow Donor Program, Hulien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Tsung Dao
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000094902:Blood Banking / Q000379:methods*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D036101:Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation; D006648:Histocompatibility; D006801:Humans; D012042:Registries; D015996:Survival Rate; D013624:Taiwan; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000600:supply & distribution*