Leukaemia patient Steven Nutt has started a long recovery process after successfully receiving bone marrow from his brother.
The 15-year-old Peers School pupil has an infection and a high temperature and will now be kept in quarantine for ten days at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Older sibling David, also of Peers, was expected to be discharged today after undergoing two-hour surgery to help save his brother. Surgeons took two pints of bone marrow, the soft substance inside bones which produces infection-fighting blood cells.
It will be a year before Steven, of Paget Road, Cowley, finds out if the transplant has worked.
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