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CHARLOTTE – A school administrator is stepping up to help a 14-year-old battling cancer.

Kevin Sudimack, the assistant principal at Alexander Graham Middle School, is hoping to be a bone marrow donor for Sloan Chambers, a student at the school who is battling a rare form of cancer called mast cell leukemia.

“Sloan is such a wonderful young lady,” Sudimack said. While he signed up to see if he's a match for Chambers, she was upstairs undergoing tests.

According to the Caringbridge website, she's been undergoing intensive chemotherapy and now needs a bone marrow transplant.

Dr. Carrie Barnhart, who has been treating Chambers and oversees the transplant center, says the likelihood of Sudimack being a match is slim. In fact, she says chances are none of the applicants – fellow churchmembers of Chambers and parents of classmates – will be a match.

Finding a match, she said, is like searching for a needle in a haystack.

“You never know. It is always a possibility. It only takes one person; that person maybe here today,” Barnhart said.

Although Sudimack may not be a match for Chambers, he's happy to know he could be for someone else.

“It makes me feel better that I'm putting my name out there and try to support those who need my help,” he said.

Doctors say a match could be made four to five weeks after a person applies to be a donor. They say they need people from all ethnicities to sign up to be donor.