For a school going child with thalassemia juggling the stress of monthly checkpoints with the hassle of monthly transfusions, the possibility of a permanent cure for the chronic condition is a ray of ...
Sold under the name Grafapex (treosulfan), it is used with another drug called fludarabine as a pretreatment in patients undergoing a donor bone marrow transplant. A donor bone marrow transplant ...
offering an alternative for patients who cannot find a suitable bone marrow donor. A significant portion of mortality and morbidity in allogenic transplantation is due to graft vs host disease ...
The National Marrow Donor Program’s website, Be the Match, includes many articles, videos and other resources for patients and caregivers about bone marrow and cord blood transplant. Information is ...