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Bone Marrow Transplants Offer Hope for Leukemia Patients
In a small group of patients with acute myeloid leukemia, the survival rates improved when this kind of transplant was given with the patient already ‘in remission’ - cleared of the disease by chemotherapy.
However, it significantly increased survival - from 2percent to 30percent, among those patients whose disease had not responded fully to treatment prior to the transplant.
''For patients considered ineligible because of chemo-resistant leukemia, this is a potentially life-saving advancement. It's likely to make enormous changes in the practice of transplantation worldwide,” BBC quoted him, as saying.
The study is due to be presented at a bone marrow transplantation research conference in London.
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