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A blood test is usually sufficient but a biopsy would determine that as well.

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Q: Can a bone marrow biopsy determine if you are compatible for a bone marrow transplant?
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What is Marrow replacement process?

This is bone marrow transplant. A compatible donor should be screen and crossmatch before they can perform the transplant.


What is a bone marrow biopsy?

it is a bone that has a marrow in the middle of the musle that causes the bone to have a marrow biopsy


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What is known as harvesting bone marrow and receiving it later as a bone marrow transplant?

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Which is the year of the first bone marrow transplant in the US with success?

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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?

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How do use bone marrow in a sentence?

The bone marrow transplant was scheduled in a month.


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?

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