SEATTLE -- A teenage boy who has Leukemia is urging people, especially Asian-Americans, to register their bone marrow type in the national registry.

Greg Hachey’s plight for a match got the attention of Gov. Gary Locke in 2004, when Locke appealed for Asian-American bone marrow donors on Hachey’s behalf.

Because Greg's mother, Cora, is from the Philippines, and his father, Mark, is Caucasian, potential matching donors are very rare.

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Hachey never found a donor.

"We thought it was all over with, in terms of treatment, and we found out right after Thanksgiving of 2007 that he had relapsed again,” said Mark.

Now 14 years old, Hachey has had several cycles of chemotherapy and remission but said the cancer has been hard to beat and is ready to try something new.

Hachey is scheduled to have an umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant next month.

Hachey, who's coped with the disease for much of his childhood, said he is upbeat about his upcoming transplant.

“I think that the transplant will work and that one day I'll be able to just be a kid, too,” said Mark Hachey.

The Hacheys are urging people, especially Asian Americans, to register their bone marrow type to help other families and said that a simple cheek swab is all that’s needed.