US mom seeks marrow for adopted Chinese kid

By Jane Chen | July 7, 2010, Wednesday |

Online Edition

A UNITED States woman has journeyed across the ocean to China on an urgent mission: seeking bone marrow for a transplant that could save her adopted Chinese daughter's life.

The woman arrived in Nanning, capital city of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, early yesterday, where she and her husband adopted the Zhuang ethnic minority girl 15 years ago as a 14-month-old baby, today's Gxnews.com.cn reported.

The woman, identified as Shirley by the Website, said the girl was born on February 25, 1994, named Liu Zhiqiong. She was adopted from Liuzhou Welfare House in 1995 and since then has been living with the American couple in Virginia.

The girl was first diagnosed with leukemia, a type of blood cancer, four years ago. The disease relapsed this April. Last week, doctors said the girl had only five weeks to live unless she had a marrow transplant.

Shirley said she had been looking for a match in the US databank but failed. She then resorted to Guangxi, the girl's hometown.

Last month, she managed to find nine apparent matches in China Bone Marrow Data Bank and five people agreed to send blood samples to the US for further tests.

However, Shirley flew to China to find more possible matches in case the five failed the final tests, according to Liu Danli, vice dean with China Bone Marrow Data Bank's Guangxi management center.

Shirley will go to Liuzhou, where she believed there will be a bigger chance of finding matches for the girl, in her five-day visit.

After that, she will return the US to care for the girl as well as another two adoptive children.

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US mom seeks marrow for adopted Chinese kid

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