9-year-old Killeen boy battling leukemia needs bone marrow donor
MJ Dixon was diagnosed in February. He only has a 23% chance of finding a donor right now. Here s how you can help. Author: Taheshah Moise Updated: 10:21 PM CDT June 1, 2021
KILLEEN, Texas A 9-year-old boy from Killeen diagnosed with leukemia needs your help.
MJ Dixon is on the list to receive a bone marrow transplant, but chances are low right now that he ll be able to find a donor.
He was diagnosed with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia on February 25. Overall my world just crashed that day. I didn’t have anything. Couldn’t think about anything else. Didn’t know what to think didn’t know what to feel, MJ s mother Chaundra Dixon said.
Be the Match, the national bone marrow donor program, was at the Clear Creek Commissary Saturday looking for people to register to be a bone marrow donor, in the hopes of finding a match for a Fort Hood youth fighting a rare form of leukemia and other children in desperate need for a bone marrow match.
In the midst of Februaryâs winter storm that blanketed Central Texas with snow and ice, 9-year-old Michael âMJâ Dixon was fighting a storm of his own, after being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare form of childhood cancer in which the bone marrow cells develop errors in its DNA.
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