For years, the medical community has pushed for increased donor registry among racial minorities to improve survival rates for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases.

Have you put your details on the donor registry?

The center's marrow donor registry has a donor base of more than 100,000 donors, and through 2007, facilitated 329 matches.

Methods to join the donor registry vary somewhat by state.

In short, donor registries matches people who type in the same donor number.