Updated
Updated · WTVC · Jun 28
Lincoln Rodgers' Family Plans July 13 Blood Drive to Fight Shortage as 7-Year-Old Marks 2 Cancer-Free Years
Updated
Updated · WTVC · Jun 28

Lincoln Rodgers' Family Plans July 13 Blood Drive to Fight Shortage as 7-Year-Old Marks 2 Cancer-Free Years

2 articles · Updated · WTVC · Jun 28

Summary

  • July 13 is the date Lincoln Rodgers' family set for a Cleveland, Tennessee, blood drive honoring the boy's second year cancer-free and urging more donations.
  • Multiple transfusions and platelet treatments helped Lincoln through medulloblastoma, his mother said, as the family points to a national blood shortage as the reason for the event.
  • Lincoln, now almost 7, has been cancer-free for 2 years after an early-life battle with brain cancer that previously rallied community support around his family.
  • The drive extends that support into advocacy, with the family using Lincoln's recovery to highlight how donated blood can sustain children undergoing cancer treatment.

Insights

A boy’s survival depended on blood donations. Why is America’s life-saving platelet supply constantly on the verge of collapse?
As more children survive cancer, what hidden health crises are they facing in adulthood?