A 9-year-old boy from Los Angeles has made medical history by becoming the youngest stem cell donor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Stephen Mondek volunteered to help save his father’s life through a stem cell transplant to treat the man’s deadly blood cancer.
Dr. Nick Mondek, an anesthesiologist working in the Los Angeles area, was first diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2022. He received a successful stem cell transplant from his younger brother, which put his cancer into remission. However, earlier this year, the cancer returned and he needed another transplant.
