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What is a bone marrow be specific?
Bone marrow is spongy white and dose not just sit in our bones. People with cancer need bone marrow transplant because the bone marrow is needed for our immune system.
What is known as harvesting bone marrow and receiving it later as a bone marrow transplant?
Autologous bone marrow transplant
Which bone marrow transplant uses the patients own bone marrow?
An autologous bone marrow transplant uses the patient's own bone marrow. The bone marrow is collected from the patient, stored, and later reinfused after high-dose chemotherapy or radiation therapy. This type of transplant helps restore the patient's immune system.
What is autologous bone marrow transplant?
Bone marrow is taken out and stored for some time. After treatment, which could be chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the stored bone marrow is returned to the patient. This procedure is carried out during treatment of cancer, Hodgkin's or leukemia and is called autologous bone marrow transplant
When the donor is the patient himself it is what type of bone marrow transplant?
Autologous = own marrow Allogeneic = transplant from a related (or tissue matched) donor. Syngeneic = transplant from an identical twin.
What is the medical term meaning harvesting your own bone marrow to use at a later date?
An autologous bone marrow transplant is bone marrow harvested from your own body. It may be done before cancer treatment.
Can you transplant bones Not just the bone marrow but all bones?
Theoretically yes, though it is extremely painful even dosed with strong narcotics and will be rejected by the body if the blood types are different. However, no one would ever need a bone transplant nor lose a bone. If the patient has bone cancer the cancer would have already spread to the blood and bone marrow, therefore a bone transplant would be useless.
What type of bone marrow transplant usues bone marrow from a donor?
allogenic
Does bone marrow give cancer?
Leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow.
What is a bone marrow transplant?
Its basically where you switch out unhealthy marrow with healthy a healthy one. This is commonly done one people with blood cancer (as blood is produced in bone marrow) leukaemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anaemia.
What is the name for bone marrow from the close relative?
The term for bone marrow from a close relative is "allogeneic bone marrow transplant."
What is the medical term meaning cancer of the bone?
Most cases of bone marrow cancer are a result of cancer cells entering the bone marrow from other cancers in the body, such as Breast cancer, prostate cancer, or lung cancer. The primary bone cancers are called osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Then there are other kinds of bone marrow cancers that are associated with a dysfunction in the development of blood cells that start out as pluripotent stem cells. These cncers include leukemia and lymphomas. A type of bone cancer that ocurrs in the red bone marrow is called multiple MYELOMA.
