EMBED More News Videos Susie Rabaca, who has leukemia, is expecting twins and needs a bone-marrow transplant to save her life. 
 
 A Southern California woman battling cancer while pregnant with twins has found the perfect bone-marrow donor just weeks after her touching story went viral."For me to find one and for it to be 10 out of 10 at that is amazing. Nothing better in the world right now," Susie Rabaca said.A record-breaking number of people signed up to be potential donors for Rabaca.She is due to give birth by Dec. 6 and was in desperate need of a bone-marrow transplant to help treat her leukemia.Rabaca is already a mother of three.Her sister is a 50 percent match, but doctors said it wasn't good enough to treat her aggressive acute myeloid leukemia. She needed a 100 percent match, but Rabaca's mixed heritage - Latino and Caucasian - had made finding a donor difficult.Rabaca and her family were on a mission to sign up as many potential donors as possible.Our sister station KABC aired her story on Nov. 22 and, within days, almost 40,000 people registered for Be The Match "Only 3 percent of our registry is mixed ethnicity and so it can really difficult to find a matching donor. The fact that we have identified a potential match for her is really exciting," said Julie Kornike of Be The Match.A bone marrow transplant can be a potentially life-saving procedure for those with leukemia. But for the process to work, the donor needs to be a close match. There are some 30 million people on the worldwide registry and none were a match for Rabaca - until now.The registry is particularly in need of people with mixed ethnic heritage for many other potential recipients without a match. Registry officials said the thousands of new donations were more ethnically diverse than average.On Wednesday night, after getting the delightful news, Rabaca and her family celebrated.While Rabaca hasn't met her donor yet, she had a message for that special person."Whoever you are out there - thank you so much. You're saving my life. You're an angel, and I hope one day to meet you," she said.Rabaca now hopes to undergo the marrow transplant after delivering her twins. She also hopes to hit a goal of 100,000 people signing up on Be The Match before the twins' birth.----- ||||| When she heard the news, she couldn’t breathe. Tears started flowing. 
 
 “Can you please repeat that?” she asked. 
 
 “You have a match,” she remembers the nurse saying. 
 
 Susie Rabaca, pregnant with twins and suffering from leukemia, has received word that a “perfect 10” bone marrow donor match has been identified. The donor is anonymous and is still undergoing testing. A tentative date for the transplant has been set for Jan. 9 at the City of Hope in Duarte. 
 
 “It’s truly a miracle,” Rabaca, 36, of San Pedro, said Thursday, Nov. 29. 
 
 She is scheduled to give birth to boy and girl twins on Dec. 6. 
 
 Rabaca said she had been discouraged when the registry of 30 million potential donors in the Be The Match organization didn’t match her. She is half-Mexican, half-Caucasian making a match more difficult. 
 
 “I had no idea how I was going to find a match,” she said. “It was scary.” 
 
 A Nov. 16 story by the Southern California News Group started a wave of signups for Be The Match. Inspired by Rabaca’s story, the numbers grew past 50,000 new potential donors. The numbers grew so high, Be The Match ran out of donor kits. 
 
 Susie Rabaca is surrounded by her family in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Clockwise from upper left are Rabaca’s daughter Jade Vega, mother Yvette Bielma, grandmother, Susie Florez, husband Sal Russo, sister Tiffany Rabaca, daughter Rylee Russo, Rabaca and son Edgar Vega. Rabaca is pregnant with twins and is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 Susie Rabaca holds her daughter Rylee Russo, 4, in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Rabaca is pregnant with twins and is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
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 Susie Rabaca has a laugh after taking off her beanie to expose her bald head as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 Susie Rabaca becomes emotional as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 With her daughter Rylee’s name tatooed on her arm, Susie Rabaca becomes emotional as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 
 
 Susie Rabaca and her husband Sal Russo in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Rabaca is pregnant with twins and is undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 Susie Rabaca, left, shares a moment with her sister, Tiffany Rabaca, as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 Susie Rabaca has a laugh just before taking off her beanie to expose her bald head as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 Susie Rabaca has a laugh as she takes off her beanie to expose her bald head as she talks about her pregnancy with twins and recently finding out she has leukemia in Carson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. She is undergoing chemotherapy and her babies are will be delivered in December. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG) 
 
 “It’s a blessing,” said Al Gomez, a community outreach specialist at Be The Match. “It’s crazy this happened so fast. It was a tremendous outpouring of love and support.” 
 
 Then a nurse from Kaiser called to inform her about the schedule of doctor visits before her transplant. 
 
 The call caught Rabaca off guard. 
 
 “Wait, do I have a match?” she asked. 
 
 The answer sent her into celebration mode. Rabaca’s family and friends met at Sorrento’s restaurant in San Pedro. 
 
 Yvette Bielma, Rabaca’s mother, said she felt great for her daughter, and also for everyone else waiting for bone marrow donors. 
 
 “We’re happy to be able to help others,” Bielma said. 
 
 Rabaca said her hope grew in recent days as her story went viral. She heard from Australia, from England, from Thailand. 
 
 “There are so many people still waiting,” Rabaca said. 
 
 Rabaca worked as a cake decorator at Albertsons. She found out she was pregnant in May. She was the mother of three – Jade, 14, Edgar, 13 and Rylee, 4. Getting pregnant was a happy accident. 
 
 Then she found out she had leukemia. 
 
 She said now that she has a match, she will have a round of radiation and chemotherapy after the babies are born and before the transplant. 
 
 On Sunday, Dec. 2, she will appear at the Harbor Christian Center in Wilmington after the morning service to sign up people for Be The Match. 
 
 “We need more matches,” Rabaca said.
– After the story of a woman battling cancer while pregnant with twins made headlines, a record number of people signed up to find out if they could donate bone marrow to her—and now Susie Rabaca has found a perfect match. Rabaca, already a mother of three and due to give birth to her twins Dec. 6, needed a 100% match to treat aggressive acute myeloid leukemia. "For me to find one and for it to be 10 out of 10 at that is amazing. Nothing better in the world right now," the Los Angeles 36-year-old tells 6 ABC. She tells the Daily Breeze it's a "miracle." Out of 30 million people on the worldwide registry, none was a match for Rabaca until her story went viral. She's part Caucasian and part Latino, making it more difficult to find a full match. Within days of Rabaca's story first airing on TV, more than 50,000 people had signed up on Be the Match. "Only 3% of our registry is mixed ethnicity and so it can really difficult to find a matching donor," says a Be the Match rep. "The fact that we have identified a potential match for her is really exciting." The anonymous donor is still undergoing testing. Rabaca's bone marrow transplant is tentatively planned for Jan. 9. (More on her story here.)