A 10-year-old boy from Torrance made history as the youngest stem cell donor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, giving his father a second chance at life.

There's nothing more that Nick Mondek loves more than being a dad. But in 2022, an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia put the then 45-year-old on his deathbed. "I'm thinking about my sons, and I'm thinking about how I'm not ready to move on yet," Mondek said.

Thankfully, his older brother Dave was a match. Several rounds of chemotherapy erased Mondek's cancerous cells and replaced them with his brother's. By the end of the year, he was able to return to work as an anesthesiologist.

"It was an incredible feeling just to have someone that you've idolized your whole life come and save you," Mondek said.

Unfortunately, remission didn

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