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Hillsdale drive aims to find match for Ridgewood boxer

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Hillsdale drive aims to find match for Ridgewood boxer

APRIL 2, 2015    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY LIANNA ALBRIZIO
STAFF WRITER |
PASCACK VALLEY COMMUNITY LIFE

The blue-eyed, inspirational Ridgewood boxer, who more and more people have come to know and admire through the lens of two Pascack Valley residents’ multi-award winning documentary film “To Be Strong,” continues to do just that. And not to mention, fighting for his life.

In another effort to aid in the search for a matching bone marrow donor for 23-year-old Anthony Daniels, who is battling Hodgkin lymphoma for the third time, Delete Blood Cancer DKMS will hold a drive for him, and other patients with similar cancers in need of a life-saving donor, on Saturday, April 18 at Hillsdale’s Veterans Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Daniels was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma — a type of blood cancer that can compromise one’s ability to fight infection — in 2011 when he was just 20 years old. While genetics, age, and certain viral infections can play a role in developing the disease, the cause is unknown. Since his diagnosis, Daniels beat the disease twice before, but it returned a third time in August 2013. He has since been in search of a bone marrow donor to replace his current marrow, which is diseased from hundreds of hours of chemotherapy and radiation treatments that he underwent in the past four years.

https://www.northjersey.com/community-news/still-fighting-to-be-strong-1.1300761

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