Sentence examples for bone marrow transplants from from inspiring English sources
Currently, most of the recipients of cord blood – as with those who receive bone marrow transplants from family members – have leukaemia, lymphoma or other blood diseases.
And in 2006, an AIDS patient in Berlin was effectively cured of the disease after receiving bone marrow transplants from a matching donor who had the delta 32 mutation.
For instance, the state said that 13 of 14 patients under the state's health system who received bone marrow transplants from nonrelatives over a two-year period died within six months.
If it did, sick people would have a right to blood transfusions and bone marrow transplants from unwilling donors and everyone would have a right to whatever medical care he needed in order to stay alive, making the Republican Party the party of death for opposing national health insurance.
Kuritzkes and colleagues are particularly interested in the experiment because two of their own HIV-infected patients with leukemia received bone marrow transplants from donors who did not have HIV-resistant cells.
Bone marrow transplants from healthy donors have been effective in fighting some cancers, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, but the treatment can cause side effects such as infections, liver and lung damage, even death.
For Hashemi, an American citizen suffering from blood cancer, a bone marrow transplant from his brother, Kamiar Hashemi, an Iranian citizen and perfect match, may save his life.
In the meantime, Molly had developed a blood condition that Dr. Wagner called "preleukemia". About a year ago, he arranged for a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor.
