A bone marrow transplant is a scientific method that includes changing someone's damaged bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells. This is used to treat a whole lot of blood cancers, including leukaemia, lymphoma, and sickle cell anaemia, in addition to rare hereditary conditions affecting the bone marrow. During a bone marrow transplant, healthy stem cells can be acquired from the patient itself, a matched donor, or the donor's umbilical cord blood. The process entails a few doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy to destroy the harmful bone marrow, and then transplanting the healthy stem cells taken from the donor. The motive of the bone marrow transplant is to repair the patient's immune system and help it generate blood cells.
What is a bone marrow transplant?
Bone Marrow Transplant- In a bone marrow transplant or stem cell transplant, healthy blood-forming stem cells update broken bone marrow that is unable to make sufficient blood cells.