Your health
Certain medical conditions can prevent you from becoming a stem cell donor.
Please read the list below and confirm that you have never been diagnosed with any of these medical conditions. If you are unsure or have any queries, please contact the donor helpline on 0300 123 23 23 for advice.
- Cancer - unless previous basal cell carcinoma or carcinoma-in-situ for which treatment has finished
Certain autoimmune diseases, including:
- Any vasculitis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Crohn’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Ulcerative colitis
Other conditions:
- Coronary artery disease (blocked arteries in the heart, angina, heart attack), heart failure, bypass surgery or heart valve replacement
- Diabetes (unless controlled by diet alone)
- Emphysema / COPD
- Epilepsy (unless you have been free of seizures and off medications for epilepsy for the last 12 months)
- Haemophilia or other bleeding disorder
- High risk genetic conditions
- Pulmonary embolism (blood clot on the lung)
- Schizophrenia
- Severe allergy to latex or anaesthetic
- Sickle cell disease (sickle cell trait is acceptable)
- Stroke
- Thalassaemia (thalassaemia trait may be acceptable)