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I have heard about stem cell transplants as a standard treatment for decades. What is this?

April 26, 2017CELL decades heard standard stem transplants treatment

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I have heard about stem cell transplants as a standard treatment for decades. What is this?

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Bone marrow stem cell transplants have been commonplace since the late 1960s/early 1970s. The therapy was developed as a method to replace new stem cells in the bone marrow and has been successfully used in patients with cancer. Scientists are able to withdraw the patient’s own bone marrow stem cells, treat the patient for the cancer and then re-infuse the bone marrow stem cells. In other cases, patients receive bone marrow from a matched donor. (Parkan P & McQueen KL, Nature Rev Immunol 2003;117:108; Suzuki Y et al, Stem Cells 2005;23:365; Askenasy N et al.