Diseases BMT & SCT Guidelines Further reading Medline Papers Links Cord Blood Banking Trials Statistics Epidemiology Advisors Contact form Print this page Bookmark this page Send to friend Diseases Bone marrow and stem cell transplantation Bone marrow or stem cell transplants are necessary when the bone marrow is so diseased or damaged that it can no longer function normally. Sometimes the damage to the bone marrow is a result of treatment for leukaemia or a related cancer of the blood. In order to destroy all of the leukaemia cells it may be necessary to use treatment so strong that it completely destroys the bone marrow Cord blood stem cell harvesting and storage We receive enquiries from time-to-time from parents-to-be who have heard of cord blood stem cell harvesting and are unsure whether they should consider commercial storage of their babies stem cells or wish to know if they can donate them to a cord blood bank. We have put together some information for anyone in this situation. Cord Blood Banking Last updated 25/11/2008 Read Our Booklet Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation (BMT) - PDF BMT booklet - HTML Seven Steps - Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation Patient Information German translation of Seven Steps. Kindly translated by Verena Leinemann Arabic translation of Seven Steps. Kindly translated by Dr Essam El Mahdi Greek translation of Seven Steps. Kindly translated by Tatiana Voriadaki and reviewed by Dr Panos Kottaridis Other Information LRF Information about Stem Cell Donation High dose therapy and autologous stem cell transplant

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