Can somebody please explain bone marrow transplant in well detail for me?
When my boyfriend went through his bone marrow transplant i asked that very same question to one of his doctors. here is what he said: Bone Marrow is the stem cells that are produced inside your bones. Most people’s bodies produce stem cells effciently but leukemia attacks the production line and makes bone marrow effectivly redundant or in some cases it deteriorates. In order for a leukemia sufferers body to start to heal itself it needs to be persuaded or stimulated into producing health stem cells again. The best way to do this is to take some healthy stem cells (bone marow) from a closly matched donor (usually a sibling) by drilling into their bone and extracting bone marrow (the healthy persons body will jsut regenerate much like giving blood) and inject those healthy cells into the patients bone. Imagine the bone was a person, when they inject the healthy bone marrow into it its like saying to the bone, this is what you should be doing and making, take these healthy cells and bui
