DKMS, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the fight against blood cancer and blood disorders, will be holding a bone marrow registration drive during The College of Wooster's home lacrosse games on Saturday, March 23.

Volunteers will be taking sign ups from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the table located by the ticket booth at John P. Papp Stadium. Those wishing to join will fill out a registration form, fill out a health history form, and provide a swab inside your cheek. The registry drive is open to people ages 18 to 55 years old, and the event is open to the local community. Admission to lacrosse regular season home games is free. Wooster's women play Transylvania University at noon with the men's game to follow against DePauw University at 3 p.m.

More young people of diverse racial and ethnic heritage are needed to help patients searching for a match. People between the ages of 18 and 35 are most urgently needed since they are requested by transplant doctors most often, and research shows that these donors provide the greatest chance for transplant success.

Every year, 12,000 patients are diagnosed with life-threatening blood cancers or other diseases like sickle cell, for which a blood stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor may be their best or only hope for a cure. A blood stem cell transplant can cure or treat more than 75 difference diseases, including leukemia and lymphoma, aplastic anemia, and sickle cell and immune-deficiency disorders.

Those interested in joining DKMS's bone marrow registry can also do so online at https://www.dkms.org/.

Those who have registered through the Be The Match registry during football's drive in April 2023 need not register again as all persons are included on the same National Marrow Donor Program registry.