Diseases can be treated by Bone Marrow Transplant?
A bone marrow transplant also called a blood stem cell transplant or BMT can treat many diseases. For some diseases, BMT is the only potential cure. There are over 70 diseases that can be treated by BMT. Some of them are listed here.
Patients undergo transplant for a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant conditions including:
Malignant conditions
Hematologic Malignancies
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Solid Tumors
Neuroblastoma
Brain tumors
Ewing sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Non-Malignant Conditions
Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Aplastic anemia
Fanconi Anemia
Hemoglobinopathies
Sickle cell anemia
Thalassemia
Primary Immune Deficiencies
Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID)
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
A bone marrow transplant also called a blood stem cell transplant or BMT can treat many diseases. For some diseases, BMT is the only potential cure. There are over 70 diseases that can be treated by BMT. Some of them are listed here.
Patients undergo transplant for a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant conditions including:
Malignant conditions
Hematologic Malignancies
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Solid Tumors
Neuroblastoma
Brain tumors
Ewing sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Non-Malignant Conditions
Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
Aplastic anemia
Fanconi Anemia
Hemoglobinopathies
Sickle cell anemia
Thalassemia
Primary Immune Deficiencies
Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID)
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
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