.UCIrvine women’s soccer player Jenika Davis needs a blood stem cell transplant to conquer leukemia. Her team is leading the charge to find a donor by partnering with Be The Match. Here's how you can help:
Potential donors swabbed the inside of their cheek, and samples were sent to a lab for testing. Be The Match reaches out to registered donors if their sample is determined to be a genetic match for one of the roughly 12,000 patients like Davis looking for a donor.
So when roommates started noticing that Davis barely had the energy to get out of bed during preseason training, they grew concerned. The house jokester had fallen silent. She wasn’t eating as much. She told her roommates she didn’t feel sick, but just didn’t feel like herself. “It was devastating when we officially found out about it,” Villalpano said. “We were all just in shock and the whole team as well.”
UC Irvine’s Jenika Davis played in five games this season and is now undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
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