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This is Naomi Schwartz, she is a 14-year-old girl from Palm Beach Florida who is battling a rare form of cancer which requires a bone marrow transplant. She is mixed race, her mother is a brown Puerto Rican woman and her father is Ashkenazi Jewish, and as a result, currently has no matches in her family or in bone marrow databases. Naomi’s family ran a drive to try to find a match for her, but that’s no guarantee she will find one. I thought I would use my platform here to encourage people or people you know, especially with a similar background to Naomi, to register on bethematch.org.

This is from the be the match site giving the average stats for people by ethnicity: 

2: an infographic with the header, “Likelihood of finding a Matched Adult Donor on the Be The Match Registry®️ by Patient Ethnicity*”. the note at the bottom reads, “*Patients are most likely to match an adult donor of their own ethnic background.” the infographic shows the following statistics:

African American or Black - 23%

Asian or Pacific Islander - 41%

Hispanic or Latino - 46%

[Native American] or Alaska Native - 57%