Blood Drive to Be Held for Former Rosedale Fire Chief
The blood drive on April 7 will benefit Lee Hendershot, who has acute myelogenous leukemia.
The volunteer firefighter community is coming together to help a former Penn Hills fire chief who has leukemia. After having flu-like symptoms, an otherwise healthy Lee Hendershot, 58, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. Hendershot, the former Rosedale VFD fire chief, currently is receiving aggressive treatments of chemotherapy and numerous transfusions of blood and platelets at UPMC Shadyside. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is cancer that starts inside bone marrow, the soft tissue inside bones that helps form blood cells. The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood cells. Some patients with AML require a bone marrow transplant. The Penn Hills VFD is sponsoring a special blood drive on Saturday, April 7…
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