Dallas teen who inspired hundreds to register to become blood stem cell donors dies
DALLAS - Pike Petersen, a North Texas teen who had been fighting an aggressive form of leukemia, had died.
FOX 4 has followed Petersen and his family as they looked for a bone marrow donor and when he received a transplant from his older brother in March.
His story inspired more than a thousand people in North Texas to register to become blood stem cell donors.
Petersen's mother says he died after complications with one of his biopsies.
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Pike was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia when he was 13 years old after feeling bad at a summer camp.
Services are scheduled for Thursday at Park Cities Baptist Church.