The basketball player returns to the hospital for the intervention: “She is an American girl compatible 90%. I was lucky”
Compatibility is 90%: Achille Polonara will suffer a bone marrow transplant to combat myeloid leukemia. He tells him himself in an interview with Corriere della Sera. He spent a few days at home in Bologna, today some visits await him then the hospitalization: “He is an American girl compatible 90% -he explains -. I was lucky, there were two donors compatible at 90%, even a German boy, but they opted for her because they managed to get in touch immediately. After tomorrow I will have to make a cycle of chemotherapy that will last 5-6 days. The transplant should take place around 23-24. September”. Short times therefore for the national team wing that last June had received the diagnosis after some medical investigations. Polonara already in 2023 had undergone a removal of a testicular neoplasm by returning to the field after a few months