Transplantation (Bone Marrow)

Marrow Donor and Recipient Meet in Omaha

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 3rd, 1997

A North Carolina man who donated his bone marrow to a stranger suffering from leukemia doesn't consider himself a hero.

But to ten-year-old boy he saved, he is much more. "[The boy] said it best. He said, 'We're blood brothers," said the donor, a 29-year-old man, of Lexington, North Carolina, who met the boy in Omaha.

Two years since the transplant, doctors have declared the marrow transfer a success, said the boy's mother. The family must wait another three years before being certain the leukemia has been cured, she said.

The boy is back in school as a fifth-grader in Omaha.

Back in mid-1994, the boy's...

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