Ed Burns and Christy Turlington in bone marrow donor appeal
Hollywood couple Ed Burns and Christy Turlington are helping find bone marrow donors for one of their son’s schoolfriends.
Burns had just dropped off his three-year-old son Finn at his New York school when the actor-director spotted a flier about a preschooler in need of a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
On April 6, four-year-old Kai Anderson was diagnosed with the rare and aggressive Philadelphia Chromosome-Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
The news was a blow to his family, especially since his father, David Anderson, was diagnosed a year ago with Mantle Cell Lymphoma – another rare and complicated form of cancer.
The plea for a donor struck a cord with Burns, who revealed to People.com: “It broke my heart.
“I went home and told my wife. We said: ‘What can we do to help this family?’ She called a friend and got more details. We wanted to do whatever we could.”
The couple are doing their part by spreading the word about a donor drive for Kai at the Montessori School of Manhattan in New York City.
Burns added: “The Tribeca Film Festival is going on that same day, so thousands of people will be in the neighbourhood. We’re trying to get them to take a few minutes of their day to have their cheek swabbed so that they can become potential donors.”
Source: Splash News
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