A Bone Marrow Registration Drive will be held by the Save the Fox Campaign at University Place in Chapel Hill on Saturday, July 30 from 12 until four in the afternoon.

The drive encourages anyone to come out and register because a single person could be the only person on the registry that could save a blood cancer patient’s life.

Those who register at the drive will get the inside of their cheek swabbed for cells and then entered into the bone marrow registry.

A registrant then may get called and asked to donate blood cells or bone marrow depending on if they are a match for a patient. The call could come weeks after, or years after or maybe never.

Save the Fox is a campaign that began last summer after Superior Court Judge Carl Fox was diagnosed with blood cancer.

After the realization that Fox had no matches in the bone marrow registry, the campaign to find a match and save his life began.

Fox and his campaign helped bring to light that only 7 percent of registrants are African American, making it more difficult for African Americans to find a cure for blood cancer.

After a long battle, Fox found a match and returned to work in Superior Court at the beginning of this month.

The Save the Fox campaign lives on in attempts to find more matches and save more lives.

This month is African-American Bone Marrow Awareness month in hopes to increase the diversity of the registry.

For more information, or to find other ways to donate or become involved visit the We Delete Blood Cancer website.