Bone Marrow Transplantation
What is Bone Marrow? Bone marrow is a spongy, soft tissue within the bones, which makes blood stem cells or blood-forming cells. These cells further turn into blood cells, such as: • Red blood cells carry oxygen to different body parts • White blood cells to combat infections • Blood platelets for controlling bleeding
Bone Marrow Transplant Work? Before undergoing a bone marrow transplant in India, you get chemotherapy without or with radiation therapy that kills diseases or damaged blood-forming marrow and cells. After that, healthy cells are injected into your bloodstream via an intravenous (IV) tube or line
Procedures Autologous Transplant
Allogeneic Transplant
This transplant uses the patient’s bloodforming cells.
This procedure uses the donor’s bloodforming cells to form healthy cells.
Bone Marrow Transplant Done The bone marrow includes hematopoietic stem cells, which further grow to form red blood cells, white blood cells and blood platelets. With the help of the bone marrow transplant, doctors can: • Replace diseased marrow that’s unable to make new stem cells. • Replace stem cells that were destroyed due to chemotherapy treatment for cancer. • Insert new donor cells into the blood for finding and killing cancer cells.
Recovery The process of recovery after the transplant is different for each patient. However, you have to spend many weeks in the hospital. Your immune system becomes weak, so the doctor will prescribe you medicines to prevent any infections. You even require blood transfusions. For the initial weeks, doctors test the patient’s blood for checking engraftment. They even take a sample of bone marrow for this procedure. After meeting certain criteria, including no fever for up to two days and certain blood cell counts, you may leave the hospital. You even need someone at home to take care of you.
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