Bone marrow treatment and medical tourism in india

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Bone Marrow Treatment and Medical Tourism in India Sometimes, the cavities in our bone are filled by a soft, spongy blood forming tissue, comprised of immature blood, also known as stem cells, and by mature blood cells as well. It also includes – red blood cells, white blood cells, and the platelets. Sometimes these tissues generate blood in your bones and which is called bone marrow. Patients who need to undergo the bone marrow transplant are generally suffering from blood cancers. In medical terminology, these cancers are called leukemia or lymphoma. There are myriad types of bone marrow transplants and the type and detrimental factor of the disease will be determined what sort of bone marrow transplant the patient need. Bone marrow transplant (BMT) is a procedure in which the diseased or damaged bone marrow is replaced with healthy bone marrow. In order to replace the diseased bone marrow with healthy bone marrow, the diseased bone marrow is first destroyed by chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. The replacement marrow or the healthy bone marrow, if comes from the patient is called an autologous bone marrow transplant and if it is from an identical twin, it is termed a syngeneic transplant. If the


marrow is from a donor (not an identical twin), the procedure is an allogeneic bone marrow transplant. Many patients are moving for bone marrow treatment in India, as all the procedure are innovative here and comes within a budget, in comparison to other nations.

All the patients here are treating with the most innovative medical practices and within the constant attention of best surgeons in the world. Not the bone marrow treatment, India has become the hub of medical tourism, especially in the Asia pacific region. Thousands of patients come to India for the treatment of many diseases and


return with the sheer satisfaction. India has a very renowned image of having the best doctors in the world. Many doctors from here are regularly going to treat the patients across the world.

Medical tourism in India has gained a prominence in the recent time, as many hospitals and medical facilities have now equipped by the best of the infrastructure on the medical grounds. Taking a cue from the whole world, then India is one of the nations, which has the most typical curriculum of medical studies, means it is a big deal to gain the medical degree from an Indian institution. It was become an trend, that many students use to go foreign nations for the medical degree, but now they have to pass a test of medical council of India to practice in India. Apart from this, if your any friend is suffering from a disease, then you can recommend her/him an Indian doctor or a medical facility.


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