A bone marrow transplant is a procedure in which healthy blood-forming stem cells are infused into the body to replace bone marrow that does not produce enough healthy blood cells. A bone marrow transplant is also called a stem cell transplant.
Bone marrow transplantation can benefit people with various cancers and non-cancerous diseases, such as:
- Acute leukemia
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Aplastic anemia
- Syndromes of bone marrow failure
- Chronic leukemia
- Haemoglobinopathies
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Immune deficiencies
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Neuroblastoma
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Disorders of plasma cells
- POEMS syndrome
- Primary amyloidosis
- And others
