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Yul Kwon: "Why do Asian Americans have such poor odds of surviving leukemia and other blood-related disorders?"

A lot of people ask me why I went on Survivor.  There were several reasons, such as the hope of increasing the representation of Asian Americans on television and trying to get away from stereotypical depictions of people from our community.  But a deeper motivation was to have a platform for raising awareness of a need that's been haunting me ever since my days in college.