Exclusion Criteria
Potential blood stem cell donors must be in good health and have no condition that by donating would adversely affect:
- The health of the donor
- The health of the patient
- The successful completion of an apheresis procedure
If any one of the following applies to you, unfortunately you will be unable to join the DKMS Stem Cell Registry as a potential Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Donor:
- You are aged under 18 or over 55.
- You are severely overweight (a BMI of more than 40).
- You have ever been injected with non-prescription drugs including body-building drugs (includes one off use).
You have EVER had any of the following:
- Autoimmune conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease or Graves’ disease
- Back surgery
- Bipolar or other severe mental disorder
- Blood disorders: DIC – Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation, Haemophilia, Pernicious Anaemia, Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease
- Cancer (including leukaemia), except for cured carcinoma in-situ and basal cell carcinoma
- Depression : on 2 or more medications at the same time
- Diabetes (unless this is controlled by diet alone)
- Epilepsy (unless you have not had a seizure and not taken medication for epilepsy for the last three years)
- Heart disease or heart surgery
- Hepatitis B or C, or HTLV
- HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease (including having a partner at risk of contracting same)
- Stroke
- Blood transfusion
- Intravenous drugs not prescribed by a doctor
If the donor has an immediate family member with the following:
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)
