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9-year-old Killeen boy battling cancer needs bone marrow donor

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.

Child seeks bone marrow transplant

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 February’s winter storm that blanketed Central Texas with snow and ice, 9-year-old Michael “MJ” 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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