M.D. Anderson Cancer Center says that patients require approximately 100 units of red blood cells and 400 units of platelets everyday. The M.D. Anderson Blood Bank is a leader in the field of transfusion medicine.
Giving blood provides hope to cancer patients. To donate blood for transfusion for another person, you must be healthy, be at least 17 year's old, weigh at least 110 pounds, and not have donated blood in the last 8 weeks.
Cancer survivors that would like to donate can if their cancer has been treated successfully and it has been at least five years since treatment was completed and there has been no cancer recurrence. Some low-risk cancers including squamous or basal cell cancers of the skin do not require a five year waiting period. If you have had leukemia or lymphoma including Hodgkin's disease, you are not eligible to donate. Go to eligibility criteria to find out more. You can also visit the Red Cross.
1. This is a very good practice we all should be doing. I lost my mother 22yrs. ago to cancer. She was needing blood transfusions quite often and I thank the blood bank for all the hard work that they do.
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Posted at 5:17PM on Sep 11th 2006 by Miranda