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.
As a result, the fat accumulates in the liver, spleen and bone marrow, causing bone damage, anemia and possibly death.
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.
If a match is found the donation of bone marrow involves the removal of stem cells from the hip bone.
Consumers who wish to exercise extra caution can follow the advice presented by the Web-based consumer advocacy group Consumeraffairs.com, which advises the avoidance of brains, neck bones and beef cheeks, bone marrow and cuts of beef that are sold on the bone.
That search is conducted largely through the National Marrow Donor Program, which maintains a registry of bone-marrow donors.
They found a genetic mutation that seemed to indicate a bone marrow transplant was necessary.
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So I'll settle for challenging everyone who reads this to get on the Bone Marrow Registry.
In 2011 she added a center for advanced therapeutics with a bone marrow transplant unit.
She will "miss a chunk of time" when she has her bone marrow transplant, she said.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
My dad died of Multiple Myeloma, Cancer of the bone marrow, when I was 15.
Maxine came in with her dad on the day of Zoe's bone marrow transplant.
Her bone marrow got completely bulldozed by four doses that most adults could not survive.
One way doctors try to fix them is to replace the bone marrow cells.
Then, on March 26, 2001, a bone marrow test revealed that he had 5q- syndrome.
This February came test results that stunned him: No leukemia detected in his bone marrow.
Three percent of Zoe's bone marrow and 12% of her spinal fluid were cancerous.
Ms Sumani developed malignant myeloma, a cancer affecting the bone marrow, while living in Cardiff.
Children who receive bone marrow transplants may be at long-term risk of diabetes, say researchers.
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.
Cells from the baby's bone marrow or umbilical cord are used to treat the older child.
The drug is still used today under strict controls to treat some bone marrow cancer patients.
The bar snacks err on the hearty side: oxtail meatballs, bone marrow bruschetta.
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Bone marrow transplants will no longer take place at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital, it has emerged.
The only cure for CML, which afflicts 25, 000 adults in the U.S., is a bone marrow transplant.
It is now increasingly used as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
In the third week Maxine's bone marrow fully engrafted and the problems in Zoe's appendix went away.
Verfaillie's study indicates that very rare cells harvested from adult bone marrow can have the same benefits.
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