A nine-year-old boy in central China has given his father the best birthday present ever – a life-saving bone marrow transplant – after deliberately gaining 18kg so that he could be a donor.
His father, Lu Yanheng, had for years battled a debilitating type of blood cancer that had left him almost bedridden at home in Henan province, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Tuesday.
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