'It just feels really good to give them that hope in the darkest times of their lives,' said Kelsey Fish.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Good Morning America's "Be The Match" nationwide initiative, hopes to have more people enter the bone marrow registry.
It's been seven years since Kelsey Fish randomly signed up to be in a bone marrow registry on her college campus. In 2022, she got the call.The odds of matching with someone is slim. It's not your blood type that determines the match— it's dependent on tissue type and your ethnic background. For local doctors, getting younger people ages 17-40 in the registry, is important to patients' success. The younger the donor, the easier the recovery process will be.
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