Abstract:Purpose: Medical tourism provides international patients with medical services, but little data is present on the role of medical tourism in regard to hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) services. Over the last 10 years, the University of Illinois at Chicago Blood & Marrow Transplant program has established an international network (GlobalBMT) of LMIC centers, that includes hospitals in Nepal, India, Nigeria, Tanzania, Bolivia, Cuba, Argentina, Ukraine. This project involves each hospital of the Glob… Show more
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