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Donor safety: the role of the WMDA in ensuring the safety of volunteer unrelated donors: clinical and ethical considerations

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Since the beginning of hematopoietic stem cell harvesting from volunteer unrelated donors, ensuring donor safety has been a necessary goal of all parties involved in the process. As donation of BM or PBSCs is not in the interest of the donor's own physical health, donor registries and transplantation centers must take into account both medical and ethical aspects involved in the donation procedure. One of the principal goals leading to the formation of the World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA) was to establish internationally acceptable standards for all aspects of unrelated donor care.

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We thank Carolyn Hurley, Effie Petersdorf, Lydia Foeken, Jeremy Chapman and members of the WMDA board for critical reading of the paper.

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  1. Department of Haematology, Anthony Nolan Trust, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

    B E Shaw

  2. Department of Paediatrics, Leiden Medical University Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

    L Ball

  3. Department of Hematology, Ankara University, Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey

    M Beksac

  4. Department of Hematology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    M Bengtsson

  5. National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    D Confer

  6. Istanbul Medical Faculty Bone Marrow Bank, Istanbul, Turkey

    S Diler

  7. Europdonor Foundation, Leiden, Netherlands

    M Fechter

  8. Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    H Greinix

  9. Department of Hematology, St George's Hospital, London, UK

    M Koh

  10. Department of Clinical Transplantation, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    S Lee

  11. Swiss Blood stem cells, Bern, Switzerland

    G Nicoloso-De-Faveri

  12. OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    J Philippe

  13. Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Galliera Hospital, Genova, Italy

    S Pollichieni

  14. Division of Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, University of Utah/Primary Children's Med Cntr, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    M Pulsipher

  15. Medical Department, DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center, Tuebingen, Germany

    A Schmidt

  16. Buddhist Tzu-Chi Marrow Donor Registry, Hualien, Taiwan

    E Yang

  17. Department of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

    A-M van Walraven

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Shaw, B., Ball, L., Beksac, M. et al. Donor safety: the role of the WMDA in ensuring the safety of volunteer unrelated donors: clinical and ethical considerations. Bone Marrow Transplant 45, 832–838 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2010.2

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