- A community effort is underway in Northeast Tallahassee to find a bone marrow donor for local FAMU professor Ancil Carruthers, who has a rare blood cancer.
- Carruthers faces challenges in finding a match due to a shortage of diverse donors, with only 29% of Black patients able to find suitable matches.
- Local friend Andrea Stephens is organizing donor recruitment drives, resulting in 249 new potential donors joining the registry.
- Watch the video to see how community members strongly support Carruthers, emphasizing the importance of helping one another during tough times.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT: A community effort to save the life of a fellow neighbor.
I’m Kenya Cardonne in the Northeast Tallahassee neighborhood.
We’re hearing from a FAMU professor battling a rare blood cancer after hundreds of neighbors have joined a mission to find him the donor match he needs for a life-saving transplant…