Bone Marrow Drives Benefit Local Boy

Back in the beginning of January, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on a 4-year-old boy, Kyle Crawford, in possible need of a bone marrow transplant to treat aplastic anemia, a rare disease. However, with a white father and Chinese mother, Kyle needs a mixed-race donor.

While white patients have about a 90 percent chance of finding a good match and minorities have about a 45 percent chance, Kyle’s chances as a mixed-race child are even slimmer.

To help patients like Kyle, who lives in San Mateo, the Alameda-based Asian American Donor Program is holding donor drives throughout the Bay Area in hopes of finding a match.

Two drives will be held in Burlingame this weekend at the Burlingame Bay Badminton Center at 1611 Adrian Rd.  The drives are Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Learn about registering to become a donor and finding out if you're a match here.

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