Join Team Janet & Help Find A Bone Marrow Match For Janet Liang

By Guest Writer | Thursday, February 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

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Janet Liang is a recent UCLA graduate of Chinese descent. On August 24, 2009, she was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia. In order to survive, she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April. The most likely match for a donor will be a Chinese American. The process of registering as a donor is easy, and testing if you are a match is a simple, painless cheek swab.

There are several big names in the APA community asking anyone out there to register as a donor and get tested in search of a match. Check them out after the jump.

Victor Kim from Quest Crew is hosting a jam at UC Irvine for those in the Southern California Area. He is also giving 100% of the revenue from iTunes sales of his song featuring rapper Dumbfoundead to help Janet search for a donor.

ISA, including KevJumba, Ryan Higa, Wong Fu Productions, and Far East Movement, are also shedding light on this cause, with this informative video about how much more as a community we could be involved to help find donors.

If you are interested in registering as a donor and getting tested to see if you are a match, please follow these links:

HelpingJanet.com
AADP
A3M
Join the Be The Match Registry for Team Janet

Thank you. Together, we can save a life.

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IsaacKojima

It think what she needs more is a donor with Chinese background, no matter the nationality. I don’t know how it works or if the searching process is automatic, but US, along 47 other countries, is part of the Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) (if I’m right, her doctor have to make a request to check the database). And among the countries who make part of these database, many has Chinese communities. If the searching for donors are cofined just to your country, the chances are to small.Anyway, but I’m silly if I expected that people didn’t contacted the BMDW, but I feel you guys limit yourselves when you make this appeal only to Americans.
moye

@IsaacKojima NO! Only American bone marrow is good enough for Americans!! Just kidding. You bring up a good point. I didn’t know there was a worldwide database (though that would make sense) but since there’s a stigma against organ donation (in Japan, at least), I wonder if the Asian outreach for bone marrow is a lot smaller.
IsaacKojima

@moye But still, if they didn’t contacted the BMDW, I think it’s worth to try. I was checking its numbers (http://www.bmdw.org/index.php?id=statistics) and indeed there not so many donors in countries like China our ROK . Japan has a respectable number, but still low compared to its population. US, Germany and Brazil are the biggest contributors to the database. Maybe, Janet Ling can receive my bone marrow (although the chance is very, very, very low, since I have no Chinese background).
timat8asians

@IsaacKojima There’s definitely a stigma against donating. I wrote about this topic earlier at http://www.8asians.com/2011/12/13/social-networking-and-bone-marrow-donors/, plus the registries themselves reject a lot of viable candidates (which I also discussed)
Danny_Ahmed

@timat8asians According to their health requirements, I am overweight, but I went ahead to ask them if I can still register if I bring it down.
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