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Please explain why people have to donate bone marrow when someone has leukemia?
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Leukemia: Is part and parcel of the bone marrow. A transplant with healthy bone marrow has a good chance of eliminating the leukemia, and by definition provides non diseased stem cells.
Answered 4/30/2013
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