BRAZIL · REDOME
Joining a stem cell donor registry from Brazil
For people who live in Brazil. Live somewhere else? Find your country.
REDOME signs up people who live in Brazil. Here’s who can join, how it works and what happens after.
You can join here, through REDOME.
Browsing from another country? See how joining works where you live.
Ways to join
One service signs up people who live in Brazil: REDOME.
REDOME
Run by Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA), Ministério da Saúde – REDOME is a programme managed by the Ministério da Saúde and run at INCA, a public body.
18–35years old to join
- Who it’s for
- People who live in Brazil, aged 18 to 35.
- Language
- Portuguese
Why this one first Brazil’s national registry: join in person at a state blood centre (hemocentro), 18–35.
Link checked Read the registry’s rules (opens in a new tab)
For patients and families
REDOME
Run by Instituto Nacional de Câncer José Alencar Gomes da Silva (INCA), Ministério da Saúde – REDOME is a programme managed by the Ministério da Saúde and run at INCA, a public body.
- Language
- Portuguese
Who can join
These are REDOME’s rules, in short. Its own pages have the full list, and the registry decides.
- Where you live
- Brazil.
- Age to join
- 18 to 35
- How long you stay on the registry
- Until your 60th birthday, unless you ask to leave.
- Your health
- Most healthy adults can join. Some conditions rule it out. Read the registry’s health 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.
REDOME 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. REDOME’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 REDOME. 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 Brazil, your place in that search starts with REDOME.
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Sources
The registries’ own pages
- REDOME / INCA (Ministério da Saúde). REDOME – Registro Brasileiro de Doadores Voluntários de Medula Óssea (home) (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- REDOME / INCA. Doadores – Como ser um doador? (opens in a new tab) Undated.Checked
Government and official registers
- Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA), gov.br. Institucional (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- Jada Bascom Foundation. About us: Jada’s story. Undated.Checked
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