Vital days for Gareth
NZPA staff correspondent Svdnev
Gareth Cotton, aged five, entered the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney yesterday to prepare for his last-chance vital bone marrow surgery. His younger brother. Damian. aged four, will be the donor for the operation, planned to take place on Wednesday next week. Gareth, his brother, sister and parents. David and Florence Cotton, of Mataura, in Southland, faced the Sydney news media at the hospital.
The boy. who suffers from leukaemia, looked bewildered by all the attention as he clutched a big teddy bear and wore a new Taronga Zoo hat acquired on a trip to the zoo after arriving in Sydney at the week-end. The head of the bone marrow transplant programme at the hospital, who asked not to be named, said Gareth would undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy this week and early next w ; eek to eradicate the resistant leukaemia. Then, all going well, the boy would have the necessary bone marrow transplant on Wednesday. September 15. There was’ a 30 to 40 per cent chance of full success with surgery of this type, he said. ’
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