They found a genetic mutation that seemed to indicate a bone marrow transplant was necessary.
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In 2011 she added a center for advanced therapeutics with a bone marrow transplant unit.
She will "miss a chunk of time" when she has her bone marrow transplant, she said.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
Maxine came in with her dad on the day of Zoe's bone marrow transplant.
He endured round after round of chemotherapy, one infection after another and a bone marrow transplant.
Most had already failed six treatments and 60% had suffered through a bone marrow transplant.
The only cure for CML, which afflicts 25, 000 adults in the U.S., is a bone marrow transplant.
He has had his bone marrow transplant, and he's improving day by day.
In 2001, Catherine spent three weeks in isolation at a clinic so that she could get a bone marrow transplant.
Three quarters of people who need a bone marrow transplant fail to get one because they cannot find a tissue match.
She underwent a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukaemia and told The Associated Press in 2006 she was "feeling fabulous".
Leukine is used to help restore a patient's immune system after it has been weakened by chemotherapy or a bone marrow transplant.
The former chronic myeloid leukaemia sufferer began running marathons for charity after he was given a life-saving bone marrow transplant in 1989.
Giusti took Velcade in 2005 but stopped after a bone marrow transplant.
The study tested whether myeloma patients who had stable disease following a bone marrow transplant did better if they received Revlimid or placebo.
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The only outright cure is still a harrowing bone marrow transplant, but Gleevec sends the vast majority of CML patients into long-lasting remission.
As for Rose, he said he's optimistic but also waiting to learn from doctors whether he needs to consider a bone marrow transplant.
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Patients who receive a bone marrow transplant from an identical twin relapse half the time, perhaps because the twins share nearly identical immune systems.
They were compared to patients who were healthy, and others who had suffered from leukaemia - but had not required a bone marrow transplant.
But with 1, 400 people waiting for a bone marrow transplant in the UK, they are urging more people to be tested and become donors.
Doctors worried that leukemic cells might have infiltrated her brain, a development that would have left her with only one option, a bone marrow transplant.
After receiving a bone marrow transplant and stem cell treatment from an umbilical cord donated by a woman in the USA, his condition seemed to improve.
When I was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2001 and in need of a bone marrow transplant, it was Richard who stepped forward without hesitation and saved my life.
Tissue from the cord of new born babies is being recycled by doctors to help patients who need a bone marrow transplant, but who cannot find a match.
Another possibility is a bone marrow transplant - the existing bone marrow cells are destroyed using chemotherapy, then new, healthy ones are transplanted in to take over their job.
When one soap - Family Ties - dealt with a character who needed a bone marrow transplant after getting leukaemia, the Brazilian attitude towards organ donation was completely changed.
The family left the hospital briefly in mid-January and then returned to Johns Hopkins for the bone marrow transplant that would replace Zoe's diseased immune system with Maxine's healthy one.
When someone receives a bone marrow transplant as a treatment for cancer, what they are getting is an injection of the hematopoietic stem cells that are found in bone marrow.
The widely publicized patient, Timothy Brown, was treated for leukemia with a bone marrow transplant that happened to come from a donor with a genetic mutation that makes immune cells resist HIV infection.
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