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What is involved in bone marrow transplant surgery?
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Bone marrow transpla: Bone marrow transplant is a procedure that hematologist/oncologists do for certain indication- for instance- in blood cancer like acute leukemia after remission from chemotherapy, or for certain cases of lymphomas, multiple myelomas- etc. It is not a surgery.Please read from this booklet : http://www.Lls.Org/#/resourcecenter/freeeducationmaterials/treatment/bloodmarrowstemcelltransplant.
Answered 11/13/2012
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