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DKMS Foundation

DKMS is dedicated to the fight against blood cancer and blood disorders. We recruit blood stem cell donors to provide people with a second chance of life, raise funds to cover donor registration costs and support the improvement of blood cancer therapies through our own research.

dkms.org.uk Fundraise for us
corporates@dkms.org.uk

+44(0)2087475651

Registered charity no. 1150056

Member since September 2018

About us

Every 20 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer or a blood disorder. For many blood cancer patients a blood stem cell transplant from a matching donor offers their best or only chance of survival. With more than 20,000 known tissue characteristics that can occur in millions of combinations, finding a matching donor is extremely rare.

4 in 10 people in need of a blood stem cell donation in the UK and worldwide do not find an unrelated matching donor.

At DKMS, our mission is to provide a matching donor for every blood cancer patient in need of a blood stem cell donation. Adding each potential lifesaver to the UK Aligned Stem Cell Register costs £40 and we rely on our supporters to help fund our lifesaving work.