Alessandro Baricco underwent a stem cell transplant today.
The surgery was performed at the Candiolo Cancer Research and Treatment Institute, where he has been hospitalized for a few days.
Baricco, who turned 64 yesterday, received the donation of stem cells from his sister Enrica.
According to what is learned, the intervention is technically successful, even if the next three weeks will be decisive to verify that everything went in the best way.
"I prefer not to talk. We are waiting", says her companion Gloria Campaner.
It was the writer himself who announced on social channels, last January 22, that he had been diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
"Um, there is news to give and this time I really have to give it, personally. It's not that great, I warn you. What happened is that five months ago I was diagnosed with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. , but not that much, come on. When you have such a disease the best thing you can do is undergo a blood stem cell transplant, which I will do in a couple of days "wrote Baricco.
The author of Novecento and Oceano mare explained that his sister Enrica would have given him the stem cells, "a woman who in my eyes was already quite special before this adventure, let alone now"
The news aroused a lot of emotion not only in the world of culture.
'Forza Alessandro' wrote thousands of people on all social networks.
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