Martin Lintag is Filipino. Just one per cent of registered stem cell donors in Canada share his ethnicity.

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On April 27, Canadian Blood Services learned it could not locate two boxes of paper records containing personal information for 2,652 people who made donations in southern Alberta between June 14 and 19, 2006, and between Sept. 4 and 8, 2008.