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Gainesville woman seeks donor match for cancer cure
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Be The Match’s Caitlin Martin shows Kelsey Bishop their banner at Bishop’s Chick-fil-A fundraiser Monday evening for her bone marrow transplant.
A Wednesday donor drive could be just the ticket for a young Gainesville woman as she searches for a stem cell donor match — a cure for her cancer. Kelsey Trusty Bishop was attending nursing school in November 2011 when she was hit by a sudden wave of extreme fatigue and dizziness one day. Following a battery of tests, Bishop, now 23, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.