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Date: April 23rd, 2008

Bone Marrow Transplant Graft Types

23 April, 2008 (08:46) | General Info | By: editor

There are two methods of transplanting a healthy bone marrow to a patient: autologous and allogeneic. Antalogous HSCT takes haematopoietic stem cells from the patient and is stored in a freezer. Then the patient undergoes chemotherapy to get rid of the patient’s cancer cells. Then the stored stem cells will be returned to the patient’s [...]