Bone marrow match makes for surprise twist

Originally published: March 16, 2013 8:58 PM
Updated: March 16, 2013 9:20 PM
By JOIE TYRRELL joie.tyrrell@newsday.com

Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Hillary Siegel poses for a photo with 11-year-old Jake Amato. (March 12, 2013)

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Fifth-grader Jake Amato's life-and-death ordeal already spanned an ocean. Now, a DNA donation given years ago when Farmingdale residents rallied around the boy means hope for another cancer patient in need of a bone-marrow transplant.

Jake, 10, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a blood cancer, when he was 4. He underwent a successful bone-marrow transplant more than two years...

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