DAYTON — Community Blood Center/Community Tissue Services (CBC/CTS) announced a historic milestone for distributing one million tissue grafts locally and nationally in 2022.
This is the highest number of tissue grafts distributed in a single year by the organization.
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“One million grafts represent the tireless work of hundreds of CBC/CTS employees to provide the life-saving and life-enhancing gifts of skin, bone, and ligaments for transplant,” a CBC/CTS spokesperson stated.
“Skin grafts are actually life-saving. The bone and tendon grafts are life-enhancing,” Shana Buck, a speaker for the event, said.
“They have changed the lives of millions of burn patients, accident victims, injured athletes, and others healed by allograft surgeries,” the spokesperson continued.
Shana Buck spoke of her “nearly fatal” car accident that broke her spine and pelvis, which left her unable to walk. Doctors believed that it would heal by itself, but she required a bone graft to be able to walk again, Buck tearfully spoke of the incident.
Tissue grafts brought her life back as an “independent person” and back to her family as a mother and wife, Buck said.
Now, she serves at CBC/CTS to give back to the donors who saved her life, Buck stated.
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CBC/CTS is a full-service blood center and global tissue graft provider headquartered in Dayton. CTS is one of the largest tissue banks in the country and the largest not-for-profit provider of skin grafts for burn patients.
You can learn more about CBC/CTC at their website.
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