Delete Blood Cancer DKMS and the Henry Schein Cares Foundation have teamed up to fight blood cancers by helping to grow the national bone marrow donor registry at dental offices.
The campaign, called Delete Blood Cancer, will enable patients to enroll in the bone marrow donor registry right from their dentist's office. The organization will provide promotional materials and swab kits to participating dental offices, and each office will send back the collected registration forms and swabs for testing with postage paid by Delete Blood Cancer.
"We know the importance of having a strong network that provides exactly what is needed by an individual customer, exactly when it is needed," said Stanley Bergman, chairman and CEO of Henry Schein, in a press release. "This is what Delete Blood Cancer is doing by linking potential donors and recipients, facilitating exactly the right match for each transplant."
Henry Schein Cares will provide in-kind marketing, communications, and social media services to Delete Blood Cancer, helping to get more dental offices involved in registering new bone marrow donors.
The dental national registration campaign was started by one dentist, Steven Conlon, DDS, who lost his father to acute myelogenous leukemia and also had a longtime patient who was diagnosed with the disease.
To learn more about the partnership and get involved, visit the Delete Blood Cancer website.
