(Hurriyet-Turkey) A Turkish leukemia patient, out of treatment options after 22 years, was matched with a bone marrow donor from Israel, resulting in a life-saving surgery. "I am indebted to the woman who gave me her marrow, and I want to meet her someday. She gave me a second chance at life," the patient, Mehmet Burhan Gul, 55, told Anatolia news agency. An international database of 15 million donors resulted in one match - a woman in Israel.
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