Over the past several years, this (advance) has enabled us to do this from wife to husband, friend to friend, cousin to cousin.

It makes the operation and the actual procedure more appealing to potential donors.

You don't have to be a blood relative but you do have to be an appropriate blood-type match.

On rare occasions, someone will call up and say they would like to donate a kidney to someone they don't know.

The continued and steady growth we have experienced over the past 2 years is a clear indication that this medium delivers results and is fast becoming accepted as part of the mainstream.

That kind of stuff usually happens to us. To have it happen to them was nice to see. ... It was huge for us.