Joe Barton: “I have offered half of my liver. I am a little bit older than my brother, but I do not smoke and drink, so I am healthy…”

“I have offered half of my liver. I am a little bit older than my brother, but I do not smoke and drink, so I am healthy, other than a lot of air miles back and forth to Texas. The problem with that is that his liver is so far gone and it has metastasized. They did not want to do a transplant or let me donate even half my liver because the theory is that they would have to lower his immune system to take a new liver and in doing that, the cancer may be other places and it would explode. Now, there is some tremendous research being done. Stem cells and bone marrow have shown that they can migrate to the liver and transform into new liver cells; and, of course, the liver will regenerate itself.”