Yale hockey player finds donor

Updated: Thursday, 05 Aug 2010, 10:37 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 05 Aug 2010, 10:37 PM EDT

New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - A Yale hockey player who has been fighting for her life has finally found a stem cell donor so she can undergo a bone marrow transplant.

Mandi Schwartz, 22, is battling acute myeloid leukemia. Doctors told her she was in remission in June, however, she was told that she needed a transplant before September in order to survive.

Schwartz was forced to take a year off from school and playing hockey after she was diagnosed with cancer back in December of 2008. She went home for several rounds of chemotherapy, then got the green light to return to school in January to complete her junior year. Shortly after that, Schwartz's cancer returned in April which forced her to undergo additional treatments.

Following Schwartz's relapse, her family started a campaign "Become Mandi's Hero," to find a donor. More than 1,600 people were tested at bone-marrow drives which took place at Yale over the past two years.

Schwartz is set to undergo the transplant on August 26th.

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