WA: Girl dies of leukaemia despite worldwide donor search
PERTH, Aug 19 AAP - A 12-year-old girl whose family launched a worldwide search fora rare Chinese-Caucasian bone marrow donor has died from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Sinead Murdoch's parents appealed nationally last year for a suitable donor for theirdaughter after a worldwide search of donor registries failed to find her a match.
Sinead's mother had a rare tissue type and the girl's father discovered he had Chineseancestry, meaning the little girl had to find a Chinese-Caucasian donor with an 80 to100 per cent tissue match.
After exhausting worldwide avenues, Sinead's mother Suellen appealed for help in aletter asking Australians to have a blood test to see if they were a tissue match.
She received hundreds of responses, but no match was found. Instead, Sinead receiveda transfusion of her mother's stem cells.
Sinead died in Princess Margaret children's hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswomansaid today.
AAP sd/cjh/bwl
KEYWORD: SINEAD
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