UNH senior ends track career to make bone marrow donation
Cameron Lyle, a University of New Hampshire track and field athlete from Plaistow, looked forward to wrapping up his competitive career with his best results ever in the America East championships early next month.
No longer.
Instead, Lyle is scheduled to be at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston Wednesday morning, intent on giving an ill young man he does not know a better chance to live. Lyle was due at the hospital at 6 a.m. for a procedure that will begin the process of donating his bone marrow.
Lyle passed on his final chances to compete after he was told about a month ago by a representative of the National Marrow Donor Program that he was a rare match for a 28-year-old who is stricken with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive cancer
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Sean McDonnell's UNH football team has sponsored four bone marrow testing drives as part of the NMDP's Be the Match Registry over the last few years. The test is a simple cheek swab, with no blood or needles involved. You can even register without leaving the house: http://marrow.org/Join/Join_the_Registry.aspx