Race to trace adopted girl’s parents: leukemia diagnosis

Race to trace adopted girl’s birth parents after leukemia diagnosis


We never intended to tell our daughter this secret if she didn’t have cancer. We have no choice but find her birth parents as soon as possible,” Peng Xin’s mother Mrs. He told local media Dahe.cn.

Misfortune came upon the 18-year-old girl from Nanyang City, central China’s Henan Province when she was diagnosed with acute leukemia earlier this month.

Chemotherapy may extend her life for about 10 months but ultimately she needs a bone-marrow transplant, and the best chances of finding a match would be to track down Peng’s biological parents.

Peng was adopted as a baby in 1999, when her adoptive parents worked in Wuhan, Hubei Province. She was found in a paper box near the Hanchuan Stadium with a small green birthmark on her shoulder.

“I already had a son and a daughter and we were not wealthy, but she looked so pitiful we brought her home and raised her like our own daughter,” Mrs. He said.

According to Peng’s adopted family and teacher, she is a helpful girl full of positive energy. A straight A senior student in high school, Peng was on course to attend college this summer but had to leave school due to her illness.

The parents were compelled to tell their daughter that she was in fact adopted as knowing your biological heritage is essential to combating the cancer. According to Mrs. He the news that she was adopted had a devastating emotional impact on her. Peng’s classmates worried about her and wanted do something to help her.



They made a video with pictures of her growing up and uploaded it to the Internet, hoping it might be circulated among more people and seen by her birth parents.

In a short space of time the video received extensive social media attention. Netizens showed their support by retweeting and give thumb-ups to the warm-hearted messages to Peng’s classmates in numerous online comments.



On Tuesday, Zhu Shuihua and her wife from Wuhan contacted Peng’s parents after they saw the report. They believe the girl is their abandoned daughter. Although the birth date they gave is later than the date of adoption, the couple have now carried out a blood test to see if they could be a bone marrow match.

“Although Peng may not be our child, we will help if the test results are a match,” the couple said to Dahe.cn.

Peng’s parents are bearing high costs of the medical fees and wait for the medical report in two weeks.