BELGIUM · MARROW DONOR PROGRAM BELGIUM
Joining a stem cell donor registry from Belgium
For people who live in Belgium. Live somewhere else? Find your country.
Marrow Donor Program Belgium signs up people who live in Belgium. Here’s who can join, how it works and what happens after.
You can join here, through Marrow Donor Program Belgium.
Browsing from another country? See how joining works where you live.
Ways to join
One service signs up people who live in Belgium: Marrow Donor Program Belgium.
Marrow Donor Program Belgium
Run by Belgian Red Cross (Belgische Rode Kruis / Croix-Rouge de Belgique), a blood service.
- Who it’s for
- People who live in Belgium.
- Languages
- English, Dutch, French and German
Why this one first Belgium’s registry, run by the Belgian Red Cross: an online test, then a consultation and blood sample at a donor centre (register before 41).
Link checked Read the registry’s rules (opens in a new tab)
What happens after you join
From your sample to a possible call. Each registry runs its own process; these are the steps they share.
Check you can join.
Marrow Donor Program Belgium sets its own age range and health rules. Its own pages have them.
Give a sample.
The registry takes a sample to record your tissue type. Its own pages say how.
You’re on the registry.
Your tissue type is recorded, so searches for patients can find you.
If you match a patient.
The registry contacts you, checks you’re still willing and well, and arranges more tests.
Donation.
If you go ahead, you’ll donate blood stem cells or bone marrow. The registry explains what’s involved and supports you through it.
Keep your contact details up to date so the registry can reach you. What donating is like
Questions
Can I join if I’m not a citizen?
Registries usually decide by where you live, not by nationality. Marrow Donor Program Belgium’s own rules say who can join.
I’m already on another country’s registry. Do I join again?
Registries share their lists with searches around the world, so ask your registry before you join a second one.
Is giving blood the same as joining?
Giving blood helps patients who need transfusions. It doesn’t put you on a stem cell donor registry unless that registry says it does.
Who is the Jada Bascom Foundation?
We’re a US charity. We don’t run a registry, and we aren’t part of Marrow Donor Program Belgium. We help people find the official registry where they live.
Live somewhere else?
Registries usually sign up people by where they live, not by nationality.
Learn more
BE SOMEONE’S TORSTEN
The same search found Jada’s donor in Germany.
Jada was a baby in Spokane, Washington, when doctors found she had acute myeloid leukemia. Her match was a stranger five thousand miles away: Torsten, who had joined the DKMS registry at a donor drive in Germany the year before she was born. If you live in Belgium, your place in that search starts with Marrow Donor Program Belgium.
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Sources
The registries’ own pages
- Belgian Red Cross (Marrow Donor Program Belgium - Registry). Become a stem cell donor: start here (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- Belgian Red Cross. Frequently Asked Questions (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- Belgian Red Cross. Registration (donor test, first question) (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- Belgian Red Cross. Privacy policy (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
Government and official registers
- Jada Bascom Foundation. About us: Jada’s story. Undated.Checked
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