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.
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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.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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