Her cancer treatment failed. Now, she is the face of this year's Festival of Trees

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Livie Smart, a leukemia survivor, is the 2025 Festival of Trees patient champion.

Livie received a pioneering bone marrow transplant and is now in remission.

The festival supports Primary Children's Hospital with proceeds and promotes marrow donations.

SALT LAKE CITY — When Livie Smart was 14 years old, she was diagnosed with leukemia. She was put on a treatment of chemotherapy pills, but after about 10 months, her treatment failed. It was then that her doctors decided they should do a bone marrow transplant.

Around the same time that Livie was diagnosed, a college student on the other side of the country attended a football game and saw a booth where she could swab her saliva and register to be on the bone marrow donor list.

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