“How does stem cell transplant work for a blood cancer patient?”
I have read about stem cell transplant helping blood cancer patients. What does this treatment really involve?
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to tell the through I should talk to you about it almost an hour. :) But briefly, autologous stem cell transplant is simple, you get chemo to ablate the marrow and then replenish with your own stem cells. for allogenic stem cell transplant we vcan use your sibling, total strangers, or your family or umbilical cord each has their own side effects but generally speaking graft versus host disease, infection and relapse with 20% transplant related mortality
