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‘A simple act of kindness’: Hong Kong bone marrow donor meets recipient for first time
- Dicky Chan, who became a bone marrow donor at the age of 25, urges young people to sign up for registry to save more lives
- The 63-year-old recipient, who only gave her surname Tam, suffered from follicular lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system
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Dicky Chan was delighted when he got the chance to save a life five years ago after doctors discovered he was a one in 10,000 match for a Hong Kong cancer patient in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant.
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“I was very excited because it’s exceptionally difficult to find a match,” Chan said. “It’s just a simple act of kindness. I could not believe that we were a perfect match based on the small possibility.”
Chan, 30, met the stranger whose life he had saved five years after the transplant on Thursday at a press conference arranged by the Hong Kong Red Cross.
The 63-year-old recipient, who only gave her surname, Tam, suffered from follicular lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system.
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