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Marrow transplant for child with leukemia cures allergy

Patient gets rid of blood cancer and peanut reactivity

RARE MEDICAL TWOFER  A bone marrow transplant appears to have cured a 10-year-old boy of both leukemia and a peanut allergy, doctors say.

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By Nathan Seppa

- More than 2 years ago

In a rare medical twofer, a child with leukemia who underwent a bone marrow transplant has emerged free of not only his cancer but his peanut allergy.