Race to trace Chinese girl’s birth parents after cancer diagnosis reveals family secret

A 18-year-old woman from China was shocked to discover she was adopted after she was diagnosed with leukaemia and is now trying to trace her real parents for a bone-marrow transplant to save her life, a news website reported.

Peng Xin underwent tests earlier this month to diagnose her illness, which revealed to her that her parents were not her biological mother and father and that she had been adopted after she was abandoned as a baby, Dahe.cn reported.