Among patients with acute leukemia, for example, the traditional treatment enables only around ten percent to live for a further three years, whereas the corresponding survival rate with a bone marrow transplant is over 50 %.
以急性白血病為例，傳統治療只有百分之二十左右的病人可以活過三年，但如果進行骨髓移植，有一半以上的存活率。