(ANSA) - TURIN, 14 FEB - Alessandro Baricco is back home.
Less than three weeks after the cellulestaminal transplant, the writer today left the Candiolo Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, where he was hospitalized.
The operation is technically successful and the postoperative course, according to what we learn, was optimal, but the next few months will be important for everything to go in the best way.
The news of the illness of the author of Oceano Mare eNovecento has aroused a lot of emotion not only in the world of culture.
'Forza Alessandro' wrote thousands of people on all social networks.
It was Baricco himself who announced on social media, 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. Then a lot, 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, explaining that his sister Enrica would have given him the cells." woman who in my eyes was already quite special before this adventure, let alone now ".
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