Overview
- Effective immediately, survivors of certain organ cancers and melanoma may donate once they are at least one year past completing treatment.
- Patients with cancers of the blood, bone marrow, or lymphatic system remain permanently ineligible, and people still in treatment or on some cancer-related medications cannot donate.
- Kentucky Blood Center encourages prospective donors to review eligibility details and make appointments, with eight fixed sites and more than 2,000 mobile drives operating statewide.
- The center supplies more than 70 hospitals and aims for roughly 400 donors each day, and one whole blood donation can help up to three patients.
- Seasonal shortages continue with a particular need for O negative and A negative types, and donors who give by January 24 receive a sweatshirt during National Blood Donor Month.