The Gift of Life, a nonprofit organization based in Boca Raton, connects patients with blood cancers and other diseases to ...
For years, the search for a stem cell donor has felt like a quest for a rare key—one that fits a lock with eight intricate tumblers, each representing a genetic marker. For many patients with blood ...
A research team has identified the impact of stem cell infusion timing on the incidence and severity of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ...
Our PHO unit collected central-only cultures three times more frequently than paired cultures. A noncontaminant pathogen was isolated from peripheral cultures in seven of 625 paired culture events ...
Credit: Getty Images. The goal of HCT is to cure an underlying malignancy or hematologic disorder. The procedure can be performed in an inpatient or outpatient setting. Each setting is associated with ...
A bone marrow transplant, or stem cell transplant, places blood stem cells back into the body. The transplant replaces cells that cancer or treatments have destroyed. People may have a bone marrow ...