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Bone Marrow Donor Campaign coming to Austin Peay State University

Sharing America's MarrowLouisville, KY – On January 20th in the Morgan University Center Lobby, Austin Peay State University students and the Clarksville community will have the opportunity to join the bone marrow donor registry and potentially save the life of a patient fighting blood cancer.

Sharing America’s Marrow, a grassroots movement to register 50,000 donors in 2015, is coming through Clarksville as their first stop on their yearlong, 50 state quest around the country.

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Sharing America’s Marrow (SAM) is a nonprofit campaign started by sisters Alex and Sam Kimura and their friend Taylor Shorten.

In collaboration with the donor center Delete Blood Cancer, SAM hopes to dispel myths about bone marrow donation, educate the public on the importance of registration, and sign up as many potential bone marrow donors as possible.

Sam Kimura (22) is fighting a rare bone marrow failure disease called severe aplastic anemia, and has yet to find a donor for the transplant that she needs to be cured.

SAM is traveling to all 50 states, with the hopes of finding a donor for Sam and for the thousands of other patients fighting blood cancer and other diseases. Because young people are the ideal donors for bone marrow transplant, the SAM team is focusing their efforts on college campuses across the country.

APSU is the first school out of over 100 that the SAM team will visit in 2015.

To register, please come to the Morgan University Center Lobby on January 20th from 10:00am – 2:00pm. Potential donors must be between the ages of 18 and 55, in general good health and willing to donate to any patient in need.

Signing up is easy and consists of completing a registration form and swabbing the inside of the mouth. Any registrant could be the cure for a patient needing a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

To learn more about the SAM campaign and the registration and donation process, please visit www.sharemarrow.com

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