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What are some good questions to ask before a bone marrow transplant?
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Here are two great sources that thoroughly answer your question...
http://www.jlsfoundation.org/treatments/bmt.html
http://www.plwc.org/portal/site/PLWC/menuitem.169f5d85214941ccfd748f68ee37a01d/?vgnextoid=bc5bc89e15942110VgnVCM100000ed730ad1RCRD
and make sure you are getting enough nutrients!
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Which bone marrow transplant uses the patients own bone marrow?
it is called an autologous bone marrow transplant
What is known as harvesting bone marrow and receiving it later as a bone marrow transplant?
Autologous bone marrow transplant
What is Marrow replacement process?
This is bone marrow transplant. A compatible donor should be screen and crossmatch before they can perform the transplant.
Which type of transplant uses the patient's own tissue?
Autologous (aw-TOL-uh-guss) Bone Marrow Transplant. The patient's bone marrow is harvested, cleansed, treated, and stored before remaining bone marrow is destroyed.
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.
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
How do use bone marrow in a sentence?
The bone marrow transplant was scheduled in a month.
What type of bone marrow transplant usues bone marrow from a donor?
allogenic
How many types are there of bone marrow?
There are three types of bone marrow transplant procedure. One of the three is called an Autologous bone marrow transplant. With an Autologous bone marrow procedure, doctors take the persons own bone marrow and freeze it before chemo then reintroduce the marrow into red blood cells after chemo or radiation. The second type is Allogeneic. In an Allogeneic marrow procedure the marrow is taken from a matching marrow donor. The third type is called Umbilical cord blood transplant. With an umbilical cord blood transplant, there can be a wider variety of donor as the cells are still considered immature.
What bone marrow is used in a bone marrow transplant?
the purpose of the bone marrow is to make up the bone
Has leukemia and requires a bone marrow transplant part of the treatment was the harvesting of her bone marrow so she could receive it later as a?
autologous bone marrow transplant, "auto" means "self"
