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Speaker 1: Now, as I said, this Saturday is World Marrow Donor

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Speaker 1: Day and the Lakeimia Foundation and Australian Bone Marrow Donor

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Speaker 1: Registry are calling on Ozzie's to be donors. Approximately ninety

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Speaker 1: percent of Australians waiting for a bone marrow transplant blood

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Speaker 1: cancer patients and joining me to find out a bit

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Speaker 1: more about the situation is the general Manager for Blood

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Speaker 1: Cancer Partnerships at the Lakeimia Foundation, Tim Murphy. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Tim.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. How are you today?

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Speaker 1: You're not too bad? Tim, tell us a little bit

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Speaker 1: more about tomorrow and what the day means.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Tomorrow's an incredibly important days, the day when

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Speaker 2: we get to talk to the stones about the gift

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Speaker 2: of life, the gift of helping someone when they need

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Speaker 2: a stem cell transplant, and the great challenges around this

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Speaker 2: gift of life is finding the right match. And this

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Speaker 2: is what the Bone Marrow Day is all about.

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Speaker 1: And now we know that obviously bone marrow is incredible important,

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Speaker 1: particularly if you are suffering from different types of cancer.

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Speaker 1: Can you talk us through how this works and the

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Speaker 1: donation process of course.

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Speaker 2: So blood courses for are veins and the way that

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Speaker 2: blood cells are created is through a group of really

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Speaker 2: really clever cells called stem cells. And when someone has

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Speaker 2: a cancer, and particularly for blood cancer patients, our own

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Speaker 2: blood goes wrong and some people treatments don't fix that mistake,

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Speaker 2: and so we need to get rid of all of

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Speaker 2: our blood and have a stem cell transplant to create

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Speaker 2: new blood from somebody else at donor in the community.

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Speaker 2: It really is the gift of life, taking your cells

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Speaker 2: in transplanting with really healthy and active cells. It is

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Speaker 2: a complicated process but incredibly important when people are at

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Speaker 2: the last stage of no other options.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it must like it'd be such a daunting

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Speaker 1: situation to be in if you were somebody that that

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Speaker 1: needed that assistance.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it is heartbreaking the stories we hear. So that's

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Speaker 2: why we're encouraging our fellow Straians who who want to

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Speaker 2: help to put themselves on the registry and say I'm

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Speaker 2: putting my hand up for someone else you need. The

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Speaker 2: great challenge we have is our ethnically diverse, austrained population

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Speaker 2: isn't reflected in the donor registry. So, as you will know,

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Speaker 2: we have a really interesting migrant population in fastinations population

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Speaker 2: and they're not fully represented. So we're asking people to

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Speaker 2: put their hand up to help members of their own

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Speaker 2: community if they become unwell.

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Speaker 1: Tim what's the process for being a marrow donor, because

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Speaker 1: I can imagine that it's quite different from regular blood donation.

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Speaker 2: That that's correct. It's really quite simple to start with.

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Speaker 2: You go to strength to Give dot org dot au.

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Speaker 2: The austrang Bo marrit donor registry will then send you

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Speaker 2: out a swab kit. Here you put the cheeks web

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Speaker 2: in your mouth, put it, gets a wider on it,

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Speaker 2: pop it back in the post and you get on

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Speaker 2: the donor registry. That then, once someone becomes unwell and

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Speaker 2: they need a stemself transplant, the doctors will look at

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Speaker 2: the donor registry and see if there's a match. And

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Speaker 2: because it's a transplant of cells from one person to another,

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Speaker 2: we have to get as close to one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: match as possible, so there's a lot of testing done

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Speaker 2: on the type of cells that you have, the extraction

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Speaker 2: of the cells to create that. The actual gift is

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Speaker 2: a complicated process, but you have to go to hospital

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Speaker 2: for a day to do that. But then that's a

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Speaker 2: very small contribution in time we're compared with the gift

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Speaker 2: of saving someone's life.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And I think that anybody who has seen

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Speaker 1: a loved one battle through something like cancer, and I

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Speaker 1: know in this case we are indeed talking about about

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Speaker 1: different types of blood cancer, but anybody that's seen a

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Speaker 1: loved one battle through cancer as a family member, you

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Speaker 1: do absolutely anything to try to help them. And this

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Speaker 1: is a situation where we can help our fellow Aussies,

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Speaker 1: can't we exactly?

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Speaker 2: This is the beautiful thing about USTREAM. We always stand

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Speaker 2: up to help each other and getting on the registry

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Speaker 2: means you put your hand up at some stage in

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Speaker 2: the future that you may be called upon, and it's

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Speaker 2: a tremendously, really wonderful thing to their prep See when

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Speaker 2: you know that someone done well and that your gift

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Speaker 2: actually gives them life.

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Speaker 1: Tim is anybody eligible to be a donor or are

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Speaker 1: there certain certain things that they need to do?

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Speaker 2: We anyone can, but we have a preference for eighteen

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Speaker 2: to thirty five year olds. I'm not being ages. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying that younger people actually are generally healthier and

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Speaker 2: their cells are therefore healthier, and they're right for transplant

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Speaker 2: to the right type of people. And we want people

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Speaker 2: from our ethnically diverse groups of specific garland As First

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Speaker 2: Nations people, Afghanis, Samari, is that the whole range of

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Speaker 2: people because the current registry is skewed to the Caucasian population,

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Speaker 2: so we need to make it more diverse fully represents

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Speaker 2: the real nature of this strain population.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know that we've got an incredibly diverse listenership

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Speaker 1: to this show, So I do hope that there are

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Speaker 1: people out there listening who are listening and thinking, you

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Speaker 1: know what I actually can help? Can you tell us how?

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Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned it before, but just talk us

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Speaker 1: through how people can register if they are listening this

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Speaker 1: morning and thinking I actually do want to be involved.

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Speaker 2: There's two ways people can help today. They can go

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Speaker 2: to Strength to Give dot org au to sign up

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Speaker 2: to the Bone Maridonut registry. Or they can and that's

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Speaker 2: to donate theirselves. And if they want to donate financial

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Speaker 2: support or to help them the Chema Foundation, go to

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Speaker 2: Blood Cancer dot org au and they can help fund

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Speaker 2: the good work that we do in our combination services,

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Speaker 2: in our counseling services.

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Speaker 1: And tim in terms of blood cancer, is it on

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Speaker 1: the rise in Australia And and you know, like I

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Speaker 1: guess what I'm asking is why we do need more

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Speaker 1: marrow donors at this point. By the sounds of it,

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Speaker 1: it's because we need that really sort of diverse range

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Speaker 1: of marrow as well.

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Speaker 2: So it's two factors. One is that we do we

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Speaker 2: need a diversity, and the second is blood cancer rate's

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Speaker 2: actually increasing. There's one hundred and thirty five thousand Austrains

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Speaker 2: who have a blood cancer today, they'll be about another

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand new cases this year. It's fifty three every day,

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Speaker 2: and that's growing. It's grown because our population has been growing,

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Speaker 2: and it's grown because blood cancers occurring people generally over

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Speaker 2: fifty years age. And then there's the third factor of

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Speaker 2: we don't know. That's why we need to keep funding

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Speaker 2: research and into new innovation in treatments and care. So

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Speaker 2: Lukema Foundation is really hoping people will understand the call

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Speaker 2: to action to both donate today for us, it's the

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Speaker 2: foundation also to go to the donor registry. Well.

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Speaker 1: General manager for Blood Cancer Partnerships at the Lakemia Foundation,

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Speaker 1: Tim Murphy, we really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for having a chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Great great to s. Thank you, thank you, thank you,