Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : MISCELLANY / NEWSMAKERS AND MILESTONES
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A 9-year-old from Huntington Beach, Tori Lee Glezos, died in Childrens Hospital of Orange County 33 days after she had received the first bone-marrow transplant performed in Orange County.
Hospital authorities said it appeared she had died not from complications of the transplant but from earlier radiation treatments she had received for the muscle cancer that had spread through her lungs, leg, spine and elsewhere.
“She died comfortably and was not in pain,” said Laura Johnson, a spokeswoman for the hospital. Her parents were with her and “saw that her lungs were getting weaker and weaker, so I don’t think it came as a surprise,” Johnson said.
The county’s second bone-marrow transplant patient, a 2 1/2-year-old girl from Santa Ana, is “doing extremely well,” and a third patient, a 15-year-old boy from Santa Ana, is doing well so far, Johnson said.
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