Stem Cell Transplants for Blood Cancers

Conference name: 2nd International conference on pathology

Short name: Pathology 2019

Venue : Paris,France | July 5-6,2019

URL: https://bit.ly/2GS09CI

The high-dose chemotherapy or radiation used to kill blood cancer cells also kills healthy bone marrow.  Stem cell transplants help restore the bone marrow’s ability to produce blood cells. In some cases, therapy followed by stem cell replacement cures the cancer.Blood cancer treatment usually starts with chemotherapy, either alone or with other drugs and treatments. Experts often disagree about which treatments to use. Stem cell transplants are expensive, risky, and usually recommended when chemotherapy fails. However, some cancer centers are trying stem cell transplants as a first treatment. 

Stem cells can come from several places. Bone marrow transplants replace diseased marrow with cancer-free marrow. Peripheral stem cell transplants use stem cells collected from the bloodstream. Transplants can involve the patient’s own cells (autologous) or cells from a donor (allogeneic).

Collecting bone marrow requires placing the donor under anesthesia then using a strong needle to draw marrow from the hip bone. This takes 1-2 hours in an operating room.  For several days before donating peripheral blood stem cells, donors take special drug shots to boost stem cell levels in the bloodstream. Then the donor is connected to a machine that filters the stem cells from the donor’s blood and returns the rest.

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Contact
KRISTIE NOVA
Program Director | PATHOLOGY 2019
Phone: (44) 20 3769 1755
Email: pathology(at)alliedannualsummit(dot)com