ROCKLAND, Mass. — The Rockland community is rallying around a teen who is in the hospital fighting cancer.
17-year-old Broeden Morss was diagnosed with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia this past December after his mother, Kerynn, noticed he wasn’t able to do his usual activities and was extremely tired.
Broeden is currently undergoing chemotherapy and requires a bone marrow transplant, but due to two rare gene fusions, his doctors have not been able to find a match.
“He has an extremely rare gene fusion, so it makes it a lot more complicated to find him a match and makes him high risk,” Kerynn Morss said. “There’s a poor prognosis of relapsing. There’s only two other people in the entire world that have my young son’s gene fusion, so it makes it a little bit, a lot more, you know, difficult.”
Tonight at the Players Sports Bar and Grille, a swab drive, hosted by DKMS in partnership with Broeden’s family, was held to try to find a match for Broeden and identify other potential donors.
Also, on Saturday, February 28, another fundraiser will be held at the same location to help Broeden
If you’d like to request a bone marrow test kit or financially help the family, visit the DKMS web page or the GoFundMe for Broeden.
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