A procedure in which bone marrow that is diseased or damaged is replaced with healthy bone marrow. The bone marrow to be replaced may be deliberately destroyed by high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. The replacement marrow may be the patient's own marrow or it may come from another person. If the marrow comes from the patient. [..]

A procedure in which a patient's bone marrow is destroyed by chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and replaced either with donated bone marrow or the patient's own marrow which has been col [..]

A complex treatment that may be used when breast cancer is advanced or has recurred. The bone marrow transplant makes it possible to use very high doses of chemotherapy that would otherwise be impossi [..]

The infusion of bone marrow into a patient who has been treated with high dose radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Patients may use their own marrow or bone marrow of another genetically matched person. Allogeneic The transplant of bone marrow from one individual (donor) to another. Autologous The transplant of a patient's own bone marrow previously [..]

Bone marrow is a spongy tissue found inside bones. Stem cells live in the bone marrow and are used to make new blood cells. For a bone marrow transplant, stem cells are taken from the bone marrow. The [..]

A simple procedure in which bone marrow is drawn from a donor's pelvic (hip) bone and injected into the bloodstream of a patient who needs to replenish a healthy supply of adult stem cells.Howeve [..]

A medical procedure in which bone marrow is removed from one person and transplanted in another in order to stimulate production of blood cells. It is used to treat malignancies, certain forms of anemia, and immune deficiencies. IVIG may be used during the course of BMT treatment.

A bone marrow transplant is a procedure to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells. There are three kinds of bone marrow transplants. The first is the autologous bone marrow transplant ("auto" means "self") where stem cells are removed before the patient receives high-dose chemotherapy or rad [..]

A procedure to replace bone marrow destroyed by high doses of chemotherapy treatment with healthy bone marrow.