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Rihanna Helps Leukemia Patient | ||||||||||||
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| Lisa Rogers, 02.25.2008, 10:25 AM | ||||||||||||
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| (EZ-Tracks) - Not content to be just another rap star, Rihanna is using her celebrity status to lobby on behalf of a New York leukemia patient in urgent need of a bone marrow donor. The 20-year-old singer is working with DKMS, an international donor network based in Tubingen, Germany, to try to find a donor for Lisa Gershowitz Flynn, according to a report in People magazine. “When I heard about Lisa's plight, my heart broke," Rihanna told the magazine. "I said, `I need to get the word out about Lisa right away.” Flynn is a 41-year-old mother of two young children. She was diagnosed in November with acute myelogenous leukemia, a fast-growing cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Doctors have told her she has four to six weeks to find a suitable donor, according to People. Flynn said she was overwhelmed by singer’s efforts. "For Rihanna to even be thinking about helping others and putting herself out there when she is so busy with her career is tremendous," Flynn said. Rihanna, who was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, was named an honorary cultural ambassador for her native Caribbean island just last week. At the Grammys earlier this month she and Jay-Z took home the gold in the rap/sung collaboration category for her hit "Umbrella." | ||||||||||||
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