What is a autologous bone marrow transplant?

Autologous transpant: When patient own cells are infused back to patient.

Stem cell transplant: An autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplant involves giving a patient high doses of chemotherapy followed by infusion of their own bone marrow or blood stem cells. It is a treatment generally used to treat certain blood cancers. Rarely it is used for certain solid tumors. There are clinical trials evaluating the role of these transplants for certain autoimmune disorders too.

The patient is donor: In case of myeloma certain lymphomas in general patients receive chemotherapy , achieve a response and then have stem cells mobilized from their marrow- frozen- patient goes through high doses of chemo to clear the marrow or kill as many tumor cells as possible and then reinfuse cells back. The idea is that high doses of chemotherapy can cause prolong remission or cure