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Blood and marrow transplant
Share on twitter bookmark & share printer-friendly version a bone marrow transplant is a procedure to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells. Bone marrow is the soft, fatty tissue inside your bones. Stem cells are immature cells in the bone marrow that give rise to all of your blood cells.
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What are the benefits of a blood and bone marrow transplant?
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How will we know if the blood and bone marrow transplant is working?
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What changes in normal activities will be necessary after a blood and bone marrow transplant?
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What are the side effects of a blood and bone marrow transplant?
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How long will I be in the hospital after a blood and bone marrow transplant?
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Can a bone marrow transplant change your blood?
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How change blood type after bone marrow transplant?
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Does a bone marrow transplant change your blood cells?
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A 19-year old female asked about a 20-year old male:
Boyfriend has sunburn. He had bone marrow transplant as kid for Burkitt's Lymphoma. Sunburn could cause blood to react. What should he look out for?
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How to cure blood cancer after bone marrow transplantation?
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Please help me in this .. Tell me what is considered the best next step to cure blood cancer after the bone marrow transplant fails ..?
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A 38-year old male asked about a female:
My 3 year old daughter is about 3 months out after a bone marrow transplant. She has had no GvH. Her platelets dropped from her last blood test 2 weeks ago from 298,000 to 98,000 . Other than a relapse could there be another cause?
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Stem cell apheresis for bone marrow transplant? How does this work and is it safe? I thought bone marrow stem cells were inside your bones, so how can you collect them from your blood? Also, can your body make more bone marrow without the stem cells?
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A 51-year old female asked:
Would the body take blood from the marrow if the hemoglobin dropped dangerously low? 2.7. If so , what are the symptoms?
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A 44-year old female asked about a male:
Hypothetical BCELL ALL case: Marrow blasts: 50% Blood blasts: rise 25% to 30% in 6 hrs Can the blood have a drastic drop in blasts (15%+ in 24 hrs) & keep falling w/o chemo? Have you seen this? What would have to happen in the marrow to achieve this?
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Are bone marrow transplants painful?
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What are the odds of surviving cancer after a marrow transplant?
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How do bone marrow transplants work.. And would i be able to donate?
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What are the risks and benefits of bone marrow transplants?
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Is it okay to use local anesthetic to donate blood marrow?
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Can bone marrow transplants leave the donor permanently weaker?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Why can't people with sjogren's donate organs, blood or bone marrow?
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A 48-year old female asked:
I tested positive for a JAK2 mutation on a blood test and when my marrow was tested the JAK2 mutation was not found. How can this be?
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A 54-year old female asked:
I have cml and have responded well to treatment. I am 55and my brother is 57. Is there an age when a marrow transplant is not viable. ?
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What are the benefits of bone marrow transplant?
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What risks are there in a bone marrow transplant?
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Any noncancer reasons for a bone marrow transplant?
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A 35-year old female asked about a 79-year old male:
Are spirulina and chlorella beneficial for the blood? Bone marrow?
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I have neutropenia what should I be doing to take care of myself I have had 4 bone marrow biopsys. And several blood draws?
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What is a bone marrow transplant?
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