The most important goal – which all organisations holding registers of potential stem donors are seeking to achieve – is to enable more people to make informed choices about signing up, as every 20 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer. In registering people aged 17-55 to the stem cell register, DKMS has been able to facilitate stem cell donations by people in their forties and fifties – both in the UK and overseas – which have offered a wide range of people needing transplants a second chance at life, including those from ethnic minority backgrounds. People of such heritages are currently under-represented on registers, meaning blood cancer patients from these communities face longer waits to find a compatible donor match, and may even pass away whilst waiting.