Half-Match Bone Marrow Transplants May Raise Odds for More Recipients
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Half-match bone marrow transplants may raise odds for more recipients.
T he advent of bone marrow transplan-tation (BMT) as a potentially cura-tive treatment for cancers of the blood-forming system has transformed treatment for patients with relatives whose human leukocyte antigen (HLA) types are identical or who can find unrelated donors with matched HLA. But the odds of locating a perfect-match donor, estimated to be better than 50% for whites, drops to less tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djr181