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Woodbridge family uses social media in search for transplant
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Posted: Feb 14, 2012 8:38 PM ET
Last Updated: Feb 14, 2012 9:24 PM ET
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A 22-year-old Woodbridge, Ont. woman and her family are searching desperately for a bone marrow transplant that could save her life, Marivel Taruc reports.
Cristina Di Corte has a gastrointestinal disease so rare only 70 people in the world have been diagnosed with it.
Nobody in her family is a match for a transplant, so instead they've launched an all-out social media search on Facebook, Twitter and a standalone website.
The website explains that a transplant will not cure Di Corte, but could extend her life by decades.
To visit the sites, click the links attached to this story.
To see Taruc's full report, click the video above.
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