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Talk about selfless!!

Cameron Lyle is a senior at the University of New Hampshire, and just decided to end his own athletics career in favor of donating his bone marrow to a man with leukemia! That's so incredible!

Cam focusing primarily on shot put, the team encouraged players his sophomore year to join the bone marrow registry — so he did! Two years later, they've told him he's a match… which is super rare to be a match with anyone outside of your own family!

Here's what he said:

Tags: bone marrow, cameron lyle, career, college sports, donor, forfeits, leukemia, stranger

Khloe Kardashian has NO QUALMS asking for help and using her online power to find it — and we LOVE that she's willing to do that!

Unfortunately, it's not a happy situation: her cousin Cici is currently battling cancer, and needs a bone marrow transplant. So she has asked her fans and followers for help in finding Cici a donor!

Here's what she wrote:

Tags: bone, bone marrow, cancer, donation, donor, help, khloe kardashian, online, sad, years

When it comes to fertility problems, disappointment can be a large part of trying to find a good egg donor.

Places like New York make finding a good egg donor hard, because the demand is so high.

When looking for fresh eggs, the selection is very limited and pricey.

So more women are turning to frozen eggs!

Tags: baby, donor, eggs, fertility, frozen, future, new york, online, pregnant, science, success, treatment, women

A new study was released that said people can tell the difference between the smell of an old person and a young person — and apparently old people stink the sweetest!

Researchers asked study participants aged 20-30 to smell a body odor sample from

Tags: age, body, donor, intense, new study, people, product, products, research, researchers, science, smell, smelly, stink, study, test, women, young

Now that's HAWT!

Tom Brady is busy preparing for one of the biggest games of his life, but he's also trying desperately to save a life.

His former football coach and mentor, Tom Martinez, suffered kidney failure and has been searching for a suitable replacement for two years. With no luck finding a match, doctors told him he's only got a few months to live, but he's not backing down and told sources:

Tags: donor, kidney, life, matching donors, matchingdonors.com, super bowl, tom brady, tom martinez, transplant

We love comedy and we love curing cancer! Who better to remind us to give a sh*t spit about cancer than two of the funniest guys on TV?

Chris Pratt and Aziz Ansari from Parks and Recreation are spreading the word for anyone over 18 to give a spit about cancer on behalf of DoSomething.Org.

The campaign is calling for possible donors to join the Be The Match registry and potentially save the life of a blood cancer patient. To participate, simply swab a few cheek cells from inside your mouth and mail it back to the registry to see if you're a match!

To find out more information about how to get involved or hold your own "Give a Spit" drive on your college campus, click here!

Tags: aziz ansari, be the match, blood, blood cancer patient, campaign, campus, chris pratt, college, donor, dosomething.org, parks and recreation, patient, spit, television

Ugh! This is so tragic!

HIV-infected organs were accidentally transplanted into 5 patients at a Taiwan hospital!

It is likely the patients will now contract HIV, while the doctors and nurses who operated on them are at a high risk as well.

Check out the video above to find out how such an awful thing was allowed to happen!

Tags: accident, aids, disgusting, doctors, donor, hiv, hospital, ignorant, nurses, organs, so sad, taiwan, tragic, transplant