San Francisco–based Ossium Health has carried out three transplants for cancer patients using stem cells from deceased donors ...

Technical improvements have made transplantation safer. Standard chemotherapy cures a small minority of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Postremission therapy is needed for cure. Cytogenetic ...

A patient with acute myeloid leukemia received a bone marrow transplant from a deceased donor, achieved engraftment, and has ...

Secondary acute ... and a stem cell transplant. Complete remission is when all signs and symptoms of your cancer disappear. What is the life expectancy of someone with secondary acute myeloid ...

According to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, among patients over 65 who received an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HCT) for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia ...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after first complete remission appears more effective than non-HSCT consolidation in older patients with AML.

Thanks to Joanna from Poland, I have no measurable leukemia. Getting college-age kids to join the bone-marrow donor registry ...

A Valley woman with leukemia hopes to raise awareness about how stem cell donors are needed for transplants that can treat ...

Partow Kebriaei, MD, discusses when the optimal time for transplant is in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

In Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), the bone marrow makes abnormal myeloblasts ... In particular, our scientists are world experts in the complications of blood stem-cell transplantation, including ...

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one type of cancer of the bone marrow and blood. In people with ALL, something goes wrong with a type of blood stem cell called a lymphoblast ... bone marrow ...

According to these findings, unrelated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation may be better for adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia compared to unrelated bone marrow stem cell ...