Posted in: Cancer by Dr. Tarang Krishna Posted Date: 30 Aug, 2016
Now that you have survived cancer, you are eager to help those who are battling with it. There comes an opportunity where you are asked to donate blood. But after fighting cancer, you sure you can donate blood?
For you have had cancer before you can’t donate blood to the other person. But don’t be disheartened as there are certain exceptions to the above-mentioned rule.
1) Time Span: If it’s been more than five years that you are cured and there has arisen no symptoms of cancer again in your body, then you can surely donate blood with a prior approval from your physician.
2) NOC from Physician: A majority of blood donation campus ask the cancer survivors to obtain a letter from their physician which mentions that the person is completely cured and now he or she can donate blood to other people.
3) Basal Skin Cancer Healed: If someone has had basal cell skin cancer before but now if that has been cured completely and the wounds too have been healed, then she/he is allowed to donate blood.
4) Pre-Cancerous Condition Healed: If someone has had a pre-cancerous condition in his/her body but after its treatment, in the follow-up test, the body did not show any abnormal cells, then that person too can donate blood.
Make sure to ask the physician before donating blood. If the response is positive then surely you can help a life to nurture again and in case, if you receive a negative response, then always encourage your friends and family to take an initiative for the great cause of blood donation.
30 Aug, 2016