They found a genetic mutation that seemed to indicate a bone marrow transplant was necessary.
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In 2011 she added a center for advanced therapeutics with a bone marrow transplant unit.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
Then, on March 26, 2001, a bone marrow test revealed that he had 5q- syndrome.
He endured round after round of chemotherapy, one infection after another and a bone marrow transplant.
Most had already failed six treatments and 60% had suffered through a bone marrow transplant.
The only cure for CML, which afflicts 25, 000 adults in the U.S., is a bone marrow transplant.
My dream is to give Mom the gift of life -- in the form of a bone marrow donor.
In 2001, Catherine spent three weeks in isolation at a clinic so that she could get a bone marrow transplant.
Three quarters of people who need a bone marrow transplant fail to get one because they cannot find a tissue match.
"As long as I live, I know I'll never do anything as important as becoming a bone marrow donor, " he said.
Leukine is used to help restore a patient's immune system after it has been weakened by chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant.
Giusti took Velcade in 2005 but stopped after a bone marrow transplant.
The study tested whether myeloma patients who had stable disease following a bone marrow transplant did better if they received Revlimid or placebo.
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As for Rose, he said he's optimistic but also waiting to learn from doctors whether he needs to consider a bone marrow transplant.
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Patients who receive a bone marrow transplant from an identical twin relapse half the time, perhaps because the twins share nearly identical immune systems.
They were compared to patients who were healthy, and others who had suffered from leukaemia - but had not required a bone marrow transplant.
But with 1, 400 people waiting for a bone marrow transplant in the UK, they are urging more people to be tested and become donors.
Doctors worried that leukemic cells might have infiltrated her brain, a development that would have left her with only one option, a bone marrow transplant.
After receiving a bone marrow transplant and stem cell treatment from an umbilical cord donated by a woman in the USA, his condition seemed to improve.
When I was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2001 and in need of a bone marrow transplant, it was Richard who stepped forward without hesitation and saved my life.
Tissue from the cord of new born babies is being recycled by doctors to help patients who need a bone marrow transplant, but who cannot find a match.
Another possibility is a bone marrow transplant - the existing bone marrow cells are destroyed using chemotherapy, then new, healthy ones are transplanted in to take over their job.
When one soap - Family Ties - dealt with a character who needed a bone marrow transplant after getting leukaemia, the Brazilian attitude towards organ donation was completely changed.
When someone receives a bone marrow transplant as a treatment for cancer, what they are getting is an injection of the hematopoietic stem cells that are found in bone marrow.
Immediately after a bone marrow harvest, a volunteer courier travels -- by plane, train, or automobile -- with the stem cells and personally delivers them directly to the patient's location.
This might be one reason why India, the world's second-largest nation, has a bone marrow registry of 39, 000 people, according to DATRI, a nonprofit organization which drives and maintains registries worldwide.
However there was still no diagnosis - and Blaze was moved to Manchester Children's Hospital where another raft of tests, including a lymph node biopsy and a bone marrow test, were carried out.
The widely publicized patient, Timothy Brown, was treated for leukemia with a bone marrow transplant that happened to come from a donor with a genetic mutation that makes immune cells resist HIV infection.
One recent case: a small child in Wisconsin who suffered through more than 100 surgeries before sequencing identified the cause of his illness and allowed doctors to prescribe a bone marrow transplant as treatment.
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