the husband of latifah simon. they got married the same date that we had an incredible bone marrow drive and we are still mourning the death of kevin. every 3 min. someone in america is diagnosed with blood cancer. bone marrow transplant is the only proven treatments for over 70 of those cancers. unfortunately, 70% of the patients do not have a fully matched donor in the family and must depend on the kindness of strangers. to save their life. more importantly, patients are more likely to match with someone who shares their ethnic background. the minorities including asian americans, latinos, and african-americans are dramatically underrepresented according to a national own registry, 60% of asian or specific islanders patients cannot find a donor. the ratio increases to 17% for hispanic or latino patients and increases even more, 2 2524% to for african-americans. for white patients only 3% cannot find a donor this is personal for me. not only did i lose some incredible friends both chris and and kevin my good frie

the husband of latifah simon. they got married the same date that we had an incredible bone marrow drive and we are still mourning the death of kevin. every 3 min. someone in america is diagnosed with blood cancer. bone marrow transplant is the only proven treatments for over 70 of those cancers. unfortunately, 70% of the patients do not have a fully matched donor in the family and must depend on the kindness of strangers. to save their life. more importantly, patients are more likely to match with someone who shares their ethnic background. the minorities including asian americans, latinos, and african-americans are dramatically underrepresented according to a national own registry, 60% of asian or specific islanders patients cannot find a donor. the ratio increases to 17% for hispanic or latino patients and increases even more, 2 2524% to for african-americans. for white patients only 3% cannot find a donor this is personal for me. not only did i lose some incredible friends both chris and and kevin my good frie