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Eastern Maine Medical Center's Cancer Care of Maine held a Bone Marrow Drive on Saturday....
Finding out if you're able to be a donor is as easy as a quick swab of the cheek.
Organizers say having as many people as possible on the national registry is crucial for saving lives.
(Brenda Clements-Nursing Services Manager/Cancer Care of Maine)"Every four minutes, someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer and every ten minutes someone dies from it so it's imperative that we beef up the national registry in order to have a big pool of donors to choose from to save some body's life."
if you would like to find out how to become a donor, you can stop by cancer care of maine...
you can also log on to getswabbed.org.
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Cancer Care of Maine Holds Bone Marrow Drive
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