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Boy gains 18kg to save his father, who has cancer | South China Morning Post

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An 11-year-old boy from central China’s Henan province had to gain 18kg in just three months in order to save his sick father. Lu Zikuan’s dad needed a bone marrow transplant to treat a type of blood cancer, and the boy was a match - but he didn’t weigh enough.

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