We often hear of cancer heroes that make it a mission in the last years of life to educate the world about cancer while making enormous changes to the way certain segments of society view the disease.

But, rarely are these heroes young kids.

12-year-old Pat Pedraja stands as one of these heroic children, as he has been busy trying to educate the public and even kids (among others) to make changes to the bone marrow registry in the U.S. so that those who need bone marrow transplants have access to needed donations. Pedraja has leukemia and is half-Hispanic as well.


It's quite comforting to hear mature words like "people are dying each day ... and I want to change that" come from a 12-year-old, but there you have it. Pedraja convinced his family to pack it up and drive across the U.S. in order to encourage children of donating age to give up some bone marrow for those that need it.


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