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ACR-85 Bone Marrow Registration and Testing Day.(2001-2002)

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Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 85
CHAPTER 69

Relative to Bone Marrow Registration and Testing Day.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  June 22, 2001. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


ACR 85, Reyes. Bone Marrow Registration and Testing Day.
This measure would designate Saturday June 23, 2001, as Bone Morrow Registration and Testing Day and would urge all Californians to register with the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program to increase the number of potential bone marrow matches for persons in need of a bone marrow transplant.
WHEREAS, Saturday, June 23, 2001, is Bone Marrow Registration and Testing Day, a day dedicated to strengthening the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program to increase its capacity and outreach in order to save as many lives as possible; and
WHEREAS, Bone marrow transplantation, once considered to be a last resort in the treatment of persons with leukemia, is now being successfully performed on persons with other forms of cancer and other life-threatening illnesses; and
WHEREAS, Bone marrow transplantation has become an accepted mode of treatment for over 60 identified life-threatening diseases; and
WHEREAS, Approximately 70 percent of patients who need bone marrow transplants do not have a family member who matches suitably to donate the needed marrow; and
WHEREAS, More than 11,000 individuals have donated bone marrow for unrelated patients since the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program began operation in 1987; and
WHEREAS, There are almost 4,000 potential bone marrow recipients searching the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program on a daily basis for a suitable donor match; and
WHEREAS, Minority patients face greater odds in finding a suitable donor match in that very few minorities have registered with the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program, thereby resulting in a disproportionate number of minority patients left untreated for a life-threatening disease that could otherwise be treated with a bone marrow transplant; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Members designate Saturday, June 23, 2001, as Bone Marrow Registration and Testing Day, and urge all Californians to register with the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry Program in order to increase the number of potential matches for all persons who are in need of a bone marrow transplant.