The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Mayo Clinic and Phoenix Children’s Hospital will host the National Marrow Donor Program's Be The Match: MARROWTHON Donor Recruitment Campaign May 3 – 5 at three Valley locations. This is a chance for members of the community and employees to help give the gift of life by joining the Be The Match Registry.

According to the Be The Match Marrow Registry (under the National Marrow Donor Program), every year more than 10,000 men, women and children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma and do not have a matching marrow donor in their family. To live, they need to find an unrelated marrow donor whose tissue type matches their own. Patients are most likely to match donors of their same race and ethnicity. If more people joined the Marrow Registry, more patients would find a donor

The drive will take place at three locations:

• May 3, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Phoenix Children’s Hospital, 1919 East Thomas Road, Main Lobby
• May 4, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mayo Clinic,13400 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, in the Taylor Auditorium on the Concourse Level of the Clinic.
• May 5, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mayo Clinic Hospital, 5777 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix, in Conference Room 1-212, located just off the atrium of the Main Hospital Building.  (Ask at front desk for directions, if needed.)

For more information about the Marrow Donor Recruitment Campaign, call 480-342-0564 at Mayo Clinic or (602) 546-0824 at Phoenix Children’s Hospital or visit www.phoenixchildrens.com.