Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation This booklet provides
information about blood and marrow stem cell transplantation for
the treatment of blood cancers. Stem cell transplantation
procedures continue to be improved, making transplantation a
treatment option for more patients. Certain other marrow
disorders are also treated with transplantation, and many of the
principles are the same as those described in this booklet.
Blood and Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation includes definitions
of medical terms. This booklet will help you talk with your
doctor about stem cell transplantation. Transplant doctors use
stem cell transplantation so that they can give large doses of
chemotherapy or radiation therapy to increase the chance of
eliminating disease in the marrow and then restoring normal
blood cell production. The infusion of a sufficient number of
stem cells from a closely matched donor, whether a sibling or
unrelated donor, will begin to restore marrow function and blood
cell production and allow recovery