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Which bone marrow transplant uses the patients own bone marrow?
it is called an autologous bone marrow transplant
What is a bone marrow be specific?
Bone marrow is spongy white and dose not just sit in our bones. People with cancer need bone marrow transplant because the bone marrow is needed for our immune system.
What is known as harvesting bone marrow and receiving it later as a bone marrow transplant?
Autologous bone marrow transplant
What is autologous bone marrow transplant?
Bone marrow is taken out and stored for some time. After treatment, which could be chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the stored bone marrow is returned to the patient. This procedure is carried out during treatment of cancer, Hodgkin's or leukemia and is called autologous bone marrow transplant
When the donor is the patient himself it is what type of bone marrow transplant?
Autologous = own marrow Allogeneic = transplant from a related (or tissue matched) donor. Syngeneic = transplant from an identical twin.
What is the medical term meaning harvesting your own bone marrow to use at a later date?
An autologous bone marrow transplant is bone marrow harvested from your own body. It may be done before cancer treatment.
Which is the year of the first bone marrow transplant in the US with success?
The first successful bone marrow transplant was in 1973.
Mrs gilmer's leukemia is being treated with a bone marrow transplant some of her bone marrow was harvested so that she will be able to receive a bone marrow transplant?
autologous
Can you transplant bones Not just the bone marrow but all bones?
Theoretically yes, though it is extremely painful even dosed with strong narcotics and will be rejected by the body if the blood types are different. However, no one would ever need a bone transplant nor lose a bone. If the patient has bone cancer the cancer would have already spread to the blood and bone marrow, therefore a bone transplant would be useless.
What type of bone marrow transplant usues bone marrow from a donor?
allogenic
How do use bone marrow in a sentence?
The bone marrow transplant was scheduled in a month.
What bone marrow is used in a bone marrow transplant?
the purpose of the bone marrow is to make up the bone
