Mother of twins who fought cancer while pregnant receives bone marrow transplant

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Monday, January 14, 2019
SoCal mom who fought cancer while pregnant finally gets transplant
The local woman who fought cancer while pregnant with twins finally received her bone marrow transplant on Saturday.

SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES -- The local woman who fought cancer while pregnant with twins finally received her bone marrow transplant on Saturday.



Susie Rabaca, 36, is fighting leukemia. She needed a bone marrow transplant that was a 100-percent match, but her mixed heritage made it difficult to find a donor.



While searching through the 30 million registered donors in the Be The Match registry, a perfect match wasn't found. But after her story went viral and thousands more registered to help her, good news came.



Susie Rabaca, who has leukemia, is expecting twins and needs a bone-marrow transplant to save her life.


"I got the call that I had an identified 10 out of 10 perfect match," Rabaca shared with Eyewitness News in a previous interview.



A Southern California woman pregnant with twins has found the perfect bone-marrow donor just weeks after her touching story went viral.


A record 60,000 people signed up to be donors.



A record-breaking number of people signed up to be potential bone-marrow donors to help a SoCal leukemia patient who is about to give birth to twins.


Just weeks after finding the perfect match, Rabaca gave birth to twins Ryan and Rainey last month.



A Southern California woman battling cancer while pregnant has given birth to twins just a week after finding the perfect bone-marrow donor.


Rabaca's mother on Saturday took photos of her smiling daughter while at City of Hope in Duarte. As for the donor, the person's name remains a mystery.

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