St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Offers New Hope for Children When Leukemia Treatment Fails
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital clinicians successfully demonstrated an improved technique for blood stem cell transplantations in children that shows promise for those most likely to fail standard treatment for leukemia.
The St. Jude technique: allowing blood stem cells to come from parents or unmatched adult siblings thereby avoiding the aggressive, toxic treatments that usually must accompany the transplant.
According to Gregory Hale, M.D., St. Jude Bone Marrow Transplantation Division interim chief:
“This technique allows the majority of patients with leukemia or non-cancerous blood disorders to receive a transplant. Our technique also accelerated recovery of the immune system in recipients and shortened the duration of immune deficiency during the early post-transplant period, reducing the risk of infections.”
This work has been reported in the prepublication edition of the British Journal of Haematology.
Find more details from the press release.
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