Children who receive bone marrow transplants may be at long-term risk of diabetes, say researchers.
Bone marrow transplants will no longer take place at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, it has emerged.
Since patients might require bone marrow transplants, the company has also called on all 20 MPS1 transplant specialists.
Ron has been fighting cancer since 2008, experiencing two expensive bone marrow transplants in the effort to save his life.
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Bone marrow transplants help fight cancer by spurring immune response, as does one of the main treatments for bladder cancer.
The risk turned up in two studies, both of which gave Revlimid to patients long-term after they had received bone marrow transplants.
Not even heavy chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants can vanquish the disease.
Few treatments, aside from bone marrow transplants, could actually stop the disease.
American hospitals perform 2, 500 pediatric bone marrow transplants a year, 11 times the number performed in the U.K., despite having only 5 times the population.
New research findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week, show that bone marrow transplants can help repair wounds and regenerate skin in EB patients.
They often go from brashly demanding cures to learning that some treatments that seemed to help, like bone marrow transplants for breast cancer, turned out to do harm.
The researchers are cautious in declaring the two men cured, but more than two years after receiving bone marrow transplants, HIV can't be detected anywhere in their bodies.
Aastrom Biosciences came to stem-cell work through bone marrow transplants.
Under all current treatments, including bone marrow transplants, all patients relapse, notes Dr. Ken Anderson, director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Because the patients were given such high doses of MIBG they required bone marrow transplants following treatment an assurance against damage to marrow that may have occurred during their treatment.
In a result eagerly awaited by Wall Street, drug developer Seattle Genetics announced that its experimental cancer medicine shrank tumors in 75% of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma that had relapsed despite rounds of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.
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Despite bone marrow transplants' risk of infertility, long-term heart problems and a 10% chance of death, American doctors are more likely to push for the procedure than their counterparts in the U.K. The idea is to try to hit a home run early to avoid later rounds of drugs and radiation.
Researchers couldn't measure how long the benefit would be sustained because once remission was established, four patients received bone-marrow transplants.
Several previous attempts to purify bone marrow for sickle-cell transplants have failed.
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