Abstract:During the last 16 years, clinical bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has become an important treatment modality for life-threatening hematologic and selected genetic disorders. The cumulative number of transplants performed since 1969 has passed 6,500 and continues to grow at an exponential rate. Whereas BMT was initially limited to patients with end-stage leukemia or bone marrow failure, it is now widely used early during the clinical course of a variety of diseases. Initially, when only patients who were in … Show more
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