Once you come to stem donation, there are two ways you can donate, either through your bloodstream or from your bone marrow, based on what works best for you.
When donating through your bloodstream, which is undertaken by 90 percent of donors, you will receive a course of injections for a few days before your donation and then you will attend hospital where stem cells are collected from your bloodstream over four to five hours and filtered out using a special machine.
With bone marrow donations, cells are collected from your hip bone while you are under general anaesthesia.
You must stay in the hospital for two nights with bone marrow donations.
