By Lynn Nicho;ls – Stanford Medicine –
From Frequent Transfusions to a Cure for Beta Thalassemia
Wade Huynh, age 3, was born with a serious blood disorder, and he needed a stem cell transplant to thrive. Luckily, he didn’t need to look far for a donor match—just across the hall in his family home. Both of his older sisters—Jubilee, age 13, and Charlotte, age 11—were perfect matches.
“There is a 25% chance we will find a full match in a sibling,” says Tami John, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and stem cell transplant specialist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. “Wade had two full matches in his sisters, which was very exciting.”
