Urgent Search for Stem Cell Donor to Save Father of Three with Rare Blood Cancer
Gift of Life Marrow Registry seeks 18–35-year-olds to join registry.
- (1888PressRelease) May 02, 2025 - Gift of Life Marrow Registry is urgently seeking a matching blood stem cell or marrow donor for Ancil Carruthers. He is a 38-year-old husband, father of three, and pharmacist who is battling Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. He is in urgent need of a blood stem cell or marrow transplant from a donor in order to survive.
Carruthers, a resident of Tallahassee, Fla., and graduate of Florida A&M University, does not have a matching donor in his family, so he is turning to the community for support. He is of Black/African American descent and his best chance of finding a match is with someone of similar ancestry. His family is working with Gift of Life Marrow Registry to test volunteer donors to learn if they are a match for him or another patient in need. Anyone 18 to 35 years old and in general good health can join the registry with a simple cheek swab.
Carruthers’s family, including his wife Natalie and their three children, are doing everything they can to support him in his search for a lifesaving hero.
“By becoming a blood stem cell donor, you have the opportunity to offer a lifeline to Ancil,” said Gift of Life Director of Donor Recruitment Chris Camacho. “Your act of kindness could bring hope and healing not just to him, but to his entire family that loves and needs him.”
To join the registry, you may request a swab kit to be delivered to your home by visiting https://www.giftoflife.org/Ancil. To hold a donor recruitment drive at your school, center of worship, or in your community, email Camacho at ccamacho ( @ ) giftoflife dot org dot
“Only 29% of Black patients are able to find a match due to a lack of diverse donors in the registry,” said Camacho. “We urgently need people with African ancestry – whether African American, Haitian, Caribbean, Black Latino, or similar genetic heritage – to register as donors to help change this inequity and save the lives of patients in need.”
Carruthers can also be supported through donations to his family’s fundraising “Donor Circle” campaign. Every gift to this circle helps Gift of Life add new donors to the registry and goes directly toward testing swab kits in order to find matches for him and other patients.
About Gift of Life Marrow Registry
Gift of Life Marrow Registry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla. The organization, established in 1991, is dedicated to saving lives by facilitating blood stem cell and bone marrow transplants for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell, and other blood-related diseases. The registry houses its own state-of-the-art stem cell collection center, biobank, and laboratory. To learn more about Gift of Life Marrow Registry, visit.www.giftoflife.org.
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