Chinese siblings save each other’s lives with bone marrow transplants eight years apart
Younger sister even appears to prophesies her own health problems while donating marrow to her brother in 2009
A man from eastern China last week donated bone marrow to his younger sister who is suffering from cancer, eight years after she did exactly the same for him.
Wang Ling, 52, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukaemia in May, Yangtse Evening News reported on Tuesday.
After being told by doctors that the only treatment was a bone marrow transplant, she turned to her brother, 55-year-old Wang Jiang.
In 2009, he had been diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia, a rare disorder in which a person’s bone marrow fails to produce enough blood cells. While it is not a cancer, it can evolve into leukaemia, and is a serious and potentially life-threatening disease.
The only remedy was a bone marrow transplant, which was provided by his sister after blood tests showed she was a suitable donor. After the operation Wang Jiang made a full recovery.
