Bone Marrow Transplants

Question 1

What is a bone marrow transplant? (BMT)

Answer 1

A bone marrow transplant is used to treat certain types of cancers, such as leukemia and lymphomas, which affect bone marrow.

Question 2

In BMT, initially both the cancer cells and the patient’s bone marrow…

Answer 2

Are destroyed with high-intensity radiation and chemotherapy.

Question 3

Stem cells produced by the bone marrow eventually develop into..

Answer 3

Blood cells

Question 4

What is an allogenic bone marrow transplant?

Answer 4

Uses healthy bone marrow cells from a compatible donor, often a sibling. However, unless this is a perfect match, there is danger that the recipient’s body will reject the transplant.

Question 5

What does allogenic mean?

Answer 5

Means originating with another.

Question 6

In what type of transplant, does the patient receive their own bone marrow cells, which have been harvested, cleansed, treated, and stored before the remaining bone marrow in the patient’s body is destroyed.

Answer 6

In an autologous bone marrow transplant

Question 7

What does autologous mean?

Answer 7

Originating within an individual.