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A bone marrow translplant is when a bone marrow from a donor is taken from them and replaced in another person. Once this happens, the recipient has to be on certain drugs to keep the bone marrow from attacking the body.
In the bone marrow are special cells called stem cells. These stem cells are removed from the bone marrow of the donor and filtered. Once filtered they are placed in the person receiving the bone marrow transplant. The purpose of performing...
A bone marrow transplant is for patients whose blood has been contaminated. People can become very ill and even die if their blood is not replaced with new blood. Bone marrow is removed from the stem cell and filtered and then given to the ...
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The goal of a bone marrow transplant is to cure many diseases and types of cancer. When a child's bone marrow has been damaged or destroyed due to a disease or intense treatments of radiation or chemotherapy for cancer, a marrow transplant ...
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YES she is lieing. Bone marrow transplant patients are in the hospital for a min of 6 weeks-12 weeks. I was in the hospital for 7 weeks, in daily out patient care for 6 weeks, and over a year later I am still in the recovery stage. There is...
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There are three kinds of bone marrow transplants: * Autologous bone marrow transplant. "Auto" means "self." Stem cells are taken from the patient before the patient gets chemotherapy or radiation treatment. When chemothe...
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Patients who have a bone marrow transplant face an increased risk of infection, bleeding, and other side effects of the large doses of chemotherapy and radiation they receive. In addition, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) may occur in patie...
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Depends on what side of the fence you are on. -If you are the donor: Donating actual bone marrow is a surgical procedure. The donor is under general anesthesia for the procedure, but like all surgeries, there will be pain and soreness after...
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Bone marrow produces stem cells. These stem cells eventually develop into blood cells. Bone marrow is a critical part of the body because it is the body's main blood cell "factory." If something is wrong with the marrow, a person ...
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A bone marrow transplant is needed when a patient’s disease has failed to respond to standard chemotherapy. It is also used to treat several types of leukemia and other disorders in which the patient’s bone marrow is failing to produce bloo...
http://www.stvincent.org/ourservices/oncology/BMT/who_b...
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