Who benefits from a bone marrow transplant?
A bone marrow transplant is needed when a patient’s disease has failed to respond to standard chemotherapy. It is also used to treat several types of leukemia and other disorders in which the patient’s bone marrow is failing to produce blood cells and platelets correctly.
Blood and marrow transplantations are used to treat a growing list of diseases, as well as non-malignant conditions, such as:
- Lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease
- Acute and chronic leukemia
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Sarcoma
- Aplastic anemia
- Auto-immune diseases
