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Korean adoptee with leukemia seeks bone marrow donor
혻혻 By Kim Young-gyo (YonHap News)
SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- Ku Ji-hye celebrated her 25th birthday this week in bed at a Jerusalem hospital, continually fighting for her life with extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Ku has acute lymphocytic leukemia. If she does not receive a bone marrow transplant she will die, doctors say. There is not any member in her family, who has human leukocyte antigens, the components in blood that indicate marrow compatibility, suitable to hers. And it is because she is an adoptee.
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I hope your friend will find a match in Korea. I lost a very close friend to leukemia. Funny thing is that she had 9 biological brothers and sisters, a living father, and two living children. None of them were matches. Adopted or not, this is just an awful, hard thing to deal with. Wishing your friend all the best,
Molly
I am an adoptee who had leukemia and was denied access to birth records by the courts.