Day 20 · Planned
Vancouver General Hospital, West 12th Avenue
Vancouver General Hospital, 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver General Hospital’s provincial transplant program
This day on the route
- Planned date
- The day
- Walking
- Planned walking
- 7.7 miles
Day 20: 7.7 planned walking miles to the VGH area. The hospital is a public route anchor; no hosted visit, patient access or indoor activity is announced.
Route overview, not turn-by-turn directions.
The planned 7.7-mile leg reaches the Vancouver General Hospital area. UBC describes its leukemia and marrow transplant program as serving adults across British Columbia and Yukon.
The Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Vancouver General Hospital serves a much wider area than the neighborhood around West 12th Avenue. UBC’s Division of Hematology describes a program caring for adults across British Columbia and Yukon who require a marrow transplant, supported by a multidisciplinary clinical team.
The program’s own description distinguishes related-donor, unrelated-donor and autologous transplants. In an autologous transplant, the cells come from the patient; in a donor transplant, the source may be a relative or someone unrelated. The program brings these different forms of treatment together for the patients it serves.
NMDP’s patient information describes a team searching family members, unrelated donors and cord blood, sometimes at the same time. It also describes partially matched options. More potential donors broaden the possibilities those clinical teams can consider.
For Jeana, the connection is personal. The foundation’s account of Jada and Torsten describes a search that reached Germany and a donor who had registered before Jada was born. The planned route brings that family history to Vancouver before turning back through the Lower Mainland toward the ferry.
Choose where you live
Continue to the official registry that serves you. It decides eligibility, handles registration and contacts you if you may match a patient.
Where in Canada?
Canada outside Québec — Canadian Blood Services
The Canadian Blood Services Stem Cell Registry asks for people aged 17 to 35 in good general health. You answer eligibility questions online, complete a profile and sign a consent form; a cheek-swab kit arrives in the mail within one to three weeks for you to swab and return. If you live in Québec, you register with Héma-Québec instead. Canadian Blood Services makes the final eligibility decision.
Check the listed age range
Browse all official registry options
Eligibility rules can change. Confirm the current requirements with the official registry before joining.
Give to the Jada Bascom Foundation
Choose a symbolic amount or enter your own in Givebutter. Your donation supports JBF’s work wherever it is needed most.
Sponsoring a mile, a day or a stop is a way of describing a gift to the Jada Bascom Foundation. It does not purchase anything on the route.
$100.00 is a suggested amount. Confirm or change it in Givebutter.
Sources
Local history and background reading for this stop.
- Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program — checked Sep 5, 2026
- The autologous transplant process — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Finding a blood stem cell donor — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Jada, Torsten and the reason for the walk — checked Sep 5, 2026
