Patient donor stories

Is your family worried about your health and are they against you becoming a donor? There is really

Elizabeth and Kathryn Girtler are healthy 9-year-old twin girls. But that wasn’t always the case. Friday night, at

DKMS donor Luis Miranda and DKMS patient and survivor Ezra Miller meet for the first time. In August

Thankfully, there are wonderful and unique moments in life. One of them is the annual donor – recipient

Local Las Vegas resident Ron Gross is alive today because of one selfless donor from Poland. In December

Life presented us with two special and beloved children, Maria Paula and Samuel. However, from an early age

Giving life is a divine act, and that was how Kiran Kumar Karamchedu described the act of blood

My brother was diagnosed with Acute Myloid Leukemia around the age of five in 1994, as this type

In March this year, bone marrow donor Max and patient Lawrence met for the first ever time! When

Gift of Life held the Steps for Life 5K Run and Walk of Boston on Sunday, April 30.

Petrozavodsk is a small town at Lake Onega, the second largest lake in Europe. Here is situated one

When Robert Skirboll went to his doctor in 2009, he complained about problems with ongoing fatigue. After a

Erik Gracia Erik Gracia was just two years old when diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer

Mackenzie Curran In 2013, at the age of 16, Mackenzie Curran was diagnosed with myelodyplastic syndrome, a  cancer

Steven Larigakis Dr. Steven Larigakis was a well-established family physician practicing in British Columbia, Canada. He was an

Muhannad Pediatric Patient from (KSA) and (German Donor) Muhannad was diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia, which required regular transfusions

DKMS is saying #ThankYouDonor this World Marrow Donor Day by highlighting an amazing and truly inspirational donor and

Ralf and John, International help crossing borders In 2007 initial typing for a diseased friend was done at

We have so much to talk about! Thousands of patients around the world need a stem cell donor

Since thirty years Stefan Morsch Foundation provides blood stem cells to many hospitals all around the world. In

I’ve lived in the U.S. since 2001, when I traveled from Colombia to complete my economics degree at

19 September 2015 was the first ever World Marrow Donor Day, when we celebrated the contributions of all

It is almost seven years ago since Dr. Sita Arjune (28 years old) registered with the DKMS. “A

When Elkhan Zaki-Zada was only one year old he was diagnosed with thalassemia. With thalassemia (“Mediterranean anaemia”), due