LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller returned home to Arkansas on Saturday after a second bone marrow transplant for a life-threatening blood disorder failed to produce encouraging results, a spokesman said.
Rockefeller, 57, returned to Little Rock from Washington state, where he had the two transplants for a condition that can lead to leukemia, his spokesman Steve Brawner said.
"His attitude is still good and he is still looking for a way to beat this disease and return to his good life and noble work," Brawner said.
Brawner would not elaborate on Rockefeller's physical condition.
The son of the late Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller, Rockefeller last summer cut short his plans to campaign for the Republican nomination for governor, saying he had myeloproliferative disorder. He flew to Seattle for medical care.
Rockefeller plans to coordinate further treatments through the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Brawner said. He would not say whether the lieutenant governor would be hospitalized.
Rockefeller received a bone marrow transplant Oct. 7 through the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and a second transplant March 29 after the first surgery was unsuccessful.
"Win has shown great courage, faith and resilience, and needs the people of Arkansas to stand with him in respecting his need for privacy, and his greater need for our prayers," Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a statement.
Bone marrow produces blood cells. Generally, a transplant involves high-dose chemotherapy to eliminate diseased blood cells and suppress the patient's immune system in preparation for new blood stem cells.
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