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Giving blood and platelets may not only save a life, it may change a life – yours! Your simple, brief act of giving directly affects someone suffering from a potentially life-threatening disease. Knowing that you can help is truly gratifying. In fact, within a few days, your donation will go directly to a patient at City of Hope.
Your help is needed
City of Hope patients, the majority of whom have cancer, rely on over 25,000 units of donated blood and platelets each year. The chemotherapy and radiation treatments our cancer patients receive to save their lives also deplete red and white blood cells, and platelets that the body naturally produces. Frequent transfusions of donated blood components become their lifeline until they can produce their own blood cells and platelets.
Why donate?
By donating at City of Hope, you not only help a patient today but the information gained by each patient's recovery aids our researchers in making further medical discoveries and helps create the miracles for which City of Hope is known.
An experienced, safe place to donate
The City of Hope Donor Center, one of the largest, hospital-based donor centers in the country, is located at the medical center in Duarte, California. For nearly 30 years, the Donor Center has provided a safe, comfortable environment in which to accept blood and platelet donations from patients' families and friends, and caring members of the community – like you.
Thank you
On behalf of our patients, we thank you in advance for joining the fight against cancer. Knowing your blood and platelets are going to a patient fighting cancer makes donating even more rewarding.
Hours of Operation
Monday through Wednesday 8 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Thursday through Saturday 7 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
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