[journal] Bone Marrow Transplantation is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering transplantation of bone marrow in humans. It is published monthly by the Nature Publishing Group. The scope of the journal includes stem cell biology, transplantation immunology, translational research, and clinical results of specific transplant protocols. ==...
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A procedure to replace bone marrow that has been destroyed by treatment with high doses of anticancer drugs or radiation. Transplantation may be autologous (an individual's own marrow saved before treatment), allogeneic (marrow donated by someone else), or syngeneic (marrow donated by an identical twin).
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A medical procedure to replenish bone marrow – the soft tissue within bones that produces new blood cells. Bone marrow transplants are necessary when marrow has been destroyed by drug or radiation therapy for cancer, often leukemia. A bone marrow donor is usually a close relative of the patien...
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<oncology, procedure> Treatment in which healthy bone marrow replaces bone marrow that has been affected by a disease or by treatment for a disease. ... Acronym: BMT ... (12 May 1997) ...
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the intravenous infusion of bone marrow; the marrow may be autologous (from a previously harvested and stored self-donation) or allogeneic (from a living related donor or a living unrelated donor). Used to treat malignancies such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and selected solid tumors, as well as nonmalignant conditions such as apl...
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When patients develop disease of the blood cells (anaemias, leukaemias or lymphomas) or when cancer treatment (chemotherapy or radiotherapy) changes or destroys the bone marrow, a transplant with healthy bone marrow might be used as treatment.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. grafting of bone marrow tissue; used in aplastic anemia, primary immunodeficiency, acute leukemia (following total body irradiation), and in patients with cancer (breast) who undergo extensive chemotherapy such that their bone marrow is destroyed.
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Bone marrow transplantation: See: Bone marrow transplant.
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