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Is there a bone marrow registry in Greenland?

For people who live in Greenland. Live somewhere else? Find your place.

As of , no bone marrow donor registry signs up people who live in Greenland. Greenland is part of the Danish Realm, and Denmark’s registry signs up healthy people aged 18 to 55 through sundhed.dk, recording them in Copenhagen or Aarhus by where they live; the Danish rules don’t mention Greenland. 1

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Greenland at a glance
PlaceGreenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) 11
RegionNorthern America, Americas 7
PopulationAbout 55,900 (2023) 8
World donor searchNo organization based in Greenland lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 5
TransplantsUgeskrift for Læger reported in 2022 that bone marrow tests for patients in Greenland are sent to Denmark, and that patients who need highly specialized treatment go from Dronning Ingrids Hospital in Nuuk to Denmark, mostly to Rigshospitalet, about 3,500 km away. 10
Where we looked4 places, in English, Danish and Kalaallisut
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Why is there no link to a registry in Greenland?

Denmark’s registry placed donors east or west of the Great Belt in its rules on Oct 15, 2026, and said nothing about Greenland. 1

What we found in Greenland

Denmark’s donor sign-up doesn’t mention Greenland. 1

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in Greenland was on WMDA’s member map or in its organization database; Denmark’s Danish Stem Cell Donors are listed under Denmark. 6 9
Bloddonorerne i DanmarkDanishOn Oct 11, 2026, a Danish search found Denmark’s rules on borger.dk and the Danish blood donors’ site, with registration at sundhed.dk, and no route described for Greenland. 1
Nunatsinni Nakorsaaneqarfik (Landslægeembedet, Greenland)KalaallisutOn Oct 11, 2026, the homepage of Greenland’s Chief Medical Officer (Nunatsinni Nakorsaaneqarfik) had nothing about stem cell or marrow donation. 4
Web searchDanishNothing to add

Are stem cell transplants done in Greenland?

About 1,000 patients from Greenland are sent to Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen each year, Ugeskrift for Læger reported in 2022, and a member of Greenland’s parliament, Inatsisartut, noted in Dec 2018 that the Greenlandic Patient Home in Copenhagen had 72 places. 2 10

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Sources

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Registries

  1. Bloddonorerne i Danmark. Har du styr på, hvordan man donerer stamceller?
  2. Inatsisartut (Parliament of Greenland). § 37-spørgsmål om patienter der modtager behandling uden for Grønland (14 December 2018). Updated Dec 14, 2018. Checked

Official bodies

  1. Folketinget (Danish Parliament), Greenland Committee. GRU Alm.del bilag 52 (2019-20) — proposal on Greenlandic stem cell donors. 2020. Unavailable when read
  2. Nunatsinni Nakorsaaneqarfik (Landslægeembedet, Greenland). Nunatsinni Nakorsaaneqarfik - Landslaegeembedet. Checked

Figures and lists

  1. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.
  2. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  3. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  4. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
  5. WMDA (Share, Organisation data public access). Database.

Other sources

  1. Ugeskrift for Læger. Håndtering af hæmatologi i Grønland (Ugeskr Læger 2022;184:V01220002). 2022. Checked
  2. Unicode CLDR. By-Type Chart: Locale Display Names:Territories (North America). Checked