Trends in Bone Marrow Donor Registration in Japan Following a Celebrity's Disclosure of Leukemia

Takashi Yoshioka; Takahiro Tabuchi; Yohei Maeda; Yusuke Tsugawa

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18698

Trends in Bone Marrow Donor Registration in Japan Following a Celebrity's Disclosure of Leukemia

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2118698. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18698.

Authors

Takashi Yoshioka¹, Takahiro Tabuchi², Yohei Maeda³, Yusuke Tsugawa^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence (CiRC 2 LE), Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
² Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California.

Abstract

This cohort study examines the association of a celebrity’s public disclosure of an acute lymphocytic leukemia diagnosis and trends in bone marrow donor registration in Japan.

Publication types

Observational Study

MeSH terms

Adult
Bone Marrow Transplantation*
Famous Persons*
Female
Humans
Japan
Leukemia / therapy*
Male
Middle Aged
Tissue Donors / supply & distribution*
Tissue and Organ Procurement / trends*
Truth Disclosure