Friday 27 February 2015

Too Many People Too Little Blood Stem Cell Transplants

Over the last 57 years over a million people have received blood and marrow stem cell transplants for life treating diseases, but unfortunately the waiting list is still long. Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) often offers the only possibility of a cure for blood diseases and rare cancers like myeloma or leukaemia. The procedure involves taking healthy stem cells from the blood or marrow of the patient or from a healthy donor, with which ...

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