{"id":13658,"date":"2016-03-08T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13658"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:17:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:17:04","slug":"kennett-y-hold-blood-registry-drive-march-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=13658","title":{"rendered":"Kennett Y hold blood registry drive March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/YMCALogo-copy-300x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1303177\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/YMCALogo-copy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"YMCALogo-copy\" \/><\/a>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Every three minutes in the United States someone is diagnosed with blood cancer, according to Delete Blood Cancer, DKMS. A bone marrow transplant is the best chance of survival; however 70% of those diagnosed must look outside of their families for a donor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Kennett YMCA, in partnership with Delete Blood Cancer \u2013 DKMS, is hosting a donor registry drive on March 12, from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at 101 Race St. Kennett Square.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those with blood cancer need of your help. 14,000 patients each year need to find bone marrow or stem cell donor matches to give them a second chance at life.\u00a0 6 out of 10 are currently unable to find a match.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can be the one to help. Registration is free. A simple cheek swab is all that\u2019s needed to register as a potential donor on the National Donor Marrow Registry.\u00a0 If you match with a patient, you will be contacted to discuss donation of stem cells or bone marrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more information on this event contact Kerianne Barry at <a href=\"mailto:kbarry@ymcagbw.org\"><span class=\"s2\">kbarry@ymcagbw.org<\/span><\/a> or 610-444-9622, ext. 2338. To learn more about blood cancer and other ways to help, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deletebloodcancer.org\/en\"><span class=\"s2\">Delete Blood Cancer<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENNETT SQUARE \u2014 Every three minutes in the United States someone is diagnosed with blood cancer, according to Delete Blood Cancer, DKMS. A bone marrow transplant is the best chance of survival; however 70% of those diagnosed must look outside of their families for a donor. The Kennett YMCA, in partnership with Delete Blood Cancer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7070,365,2959],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-blood-registry","tag-kennett-square","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}