According to Thomas Klumpp, vice chair of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Temple University Hospital, the benefits of becoming a bone marrow donor are numerous. "We use bone marrow to treat…leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma," said Klumpp. "While they can be treated with chemotherapy and other procedures, they don't always succeed. In many respects, bone marrow is the last line of treatment and the most powerful. And new research is showing in a subset of patients the benefits of moving bone marrow transplants closer to the front of treatment."