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Is there a bone marrow registry in Cambodia?
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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in Cambodia can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Stanford Medicine wrote in January 2020 that patients in Cambodia had to go to Vietnam or Thailand for a transplant, while Phnom Penh’s Calmette Hospital set up eight rooms for transplants. 10
| Place | Cambodia (កម្ពុជា) 13 |
|---|---|
| Region | South-eastern Asia, Asia 7 |
| Population | About 17.4 million (2023) 8 |
| Registry | None found as of 5 6 |
| World donor search | No organization based in Cambodia lists adult donors in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 5 |
| Transplants | Open Development Mekong, carrying a Thanh Nien News report, said in August 2016 that Ho Chi Minh City’s Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital was training a Calmette Hospital team of three doctors, two nurses and a technician in stem cell transplants for Cambodia. 11 |
| Where we looked | 6 places, in English and Khmer |
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What we found in Cambodia
Cambodia’s Calmette Hospital was preparing the country’s first transplant program in 2020. 10
| Where | Language | Finding | Date |
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| World Marrow Donor Association | English | On Oct 11, 2026, the World Marrow Donor Association’s member map, organization database and statistics had no organization based in Cambodia. 5 6 9 | |
| Cambodian Red Cross | Khmer and English | On Oct 11, 2026, searches of the Cambodian Red Cross website for “stem cell” and the Khmer word for bone marrow returned the same generic results whatever we typed, so its search didn’t work. 1 | |
| Web search | English | On Oct 11, 2026, web searches for a first bone marrow transplant at Calmette Hospital found the 2020 plans described by Stanford Medicine and no announcement that Cambodia’s program had opened. 10 | |
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We couldn’t open the website of Ministry of Health, Cambodia when we tried on Oct 11, 2026. That tells us nothing about whether it offers a way to join.
Can people in Cambodia join a registry abroad?
Are stem cell transplants done in Cambodia?
Stanford Medicine wrote in January 2020 that Cambodia had only one apheresis machine and that Calmette Hospital, the country’s only cancer center, still had to find $1 million to renovate its transplant facility with HEPA filtration. 10
Stanford Medicine wrote in January 2020 that Kakada Ou, a hematologist at Calmette Hospital who wanted to set up Cambodia’s first blood and marrow transplant program, had funding for 12 weeks of transplant training at Stanford through the American Society of Hematology’s Visitor Training Program. 10
Questions about Cambodia
Can a hospital in Cambodia search abroad for a donor?
A transplant doctor at Narayana Health City in Bengaluru, India, told BioSpectrum in September 2018 that an unrelated donor is very unlikely to be found for patients of Cambodian descent, because Cambodia has no donor registry and other registries hold very few Cambodian donors. 12
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Registries
- Cambodian Red Cross. Site searches "stem cell", Khmer "ខួរឆ្អឹង", "blood".
- Thai National Stem Cell Donor Registry (TSCDR), National Blood Centre, Thai Red Cross Society. ลงทะเบียนเป็นอาสาสมัครบริจาคสเต็มเซลล์ (Register as a stem cell donor volunteer).
- Thai National Stem Cell Donor Registry (TSCDR), National Blood Centre, Thai Red Cross Society. HOPE HERO ... ฉลองวันผู้บริจาคสเต็มเซลล์โลก ปี 2568 (World Marrow Donor Day 2025 campaign). 2025.
Official bodies
- Ministry of Health, Cambodia. MOH site searches (Khmer "ខួរឆ្អឹង" bone marrow, Khmer "កោសិកាដើម" stem cell, English "stem cell"). Tried ; we couldn’t open it
Figures and lists
- WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
- World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
- United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
- UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
- WMDA (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.
Other sources
- Stanford Medicine (Cancer Institute). Kakada Ou, MD (training profile). Updated Jan 30, 2020.
- Open Development Mekong. Vietnam doctors train Cambodians in hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Updated Aug 3, 2016.
- BioSpectrum (India). Narayana Health City conducts unique bone marrow transplant. Updated Sep 4, 2018. Checked
- Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (Asia). Checked