Marine Sent Home to Help Ailing Brother
A U.S. Marine, Pfc. Ian Perry, got an early ticket home from the Persian Gulf so he could donate stem cells to his cancer-stricken brother Scott. Scott Perry joked they were doing each other a favor: “I got him out of a war zone.”
Ian Perry, 20, returned this month, and doctors have begun removing his stem cells at Orlando’s Florida Hospital Cancer Institute.
Scott Perry, 36, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma three years ago. He underwent a stem cell transplant last year, but more tumors were found two months ago.
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