I spent my career in the field of breast cancer and my life was torn apart by having the disease.  We still hope and pray for a definitive treatment that will cure the disease.  With blood cancers like leukemia and other life-threatening blood diseases like sickle cell anemia we have the cure.  Stem cell transplants and bone marrow transplants can definitively cure these diseases. 

We must finally end the racial disparities in our national stem cell/bone marrow donor registry in the United States.   Only 23% of black Americans needing a transplant find a life-saving donor match; 77% tragically, needlessly, die waiting for a donor whose stem cells could have been the cure.  Asian Americans, Every child deserves the chance to grow up and realize his or her full potential. Please help give every child and all patients fighting a blood cancer or other life-threatening blood disease that opportunity.

This petition outlines cost-effective ways in which we can finally diversify the national stem cell/bone marrow donor registry and cord blood registries in the U.S. and registries worldwide.