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My friend when she was a 12yr old had bruising all over her, she had to have a bone marrow transplant and a splenectomy. what illness did she have?

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Bone marrow disease: Bone marrow transplants are indicated for people who have failure of their own marrow due to cancers such as leukemia, or chemotherapy.

Answered 5/26/2014

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