Bone Marrow Transplants for Malignant Diseases
Intensive chemotherapy, with or without total body radiation, followed by bone marrow transplantation is now widely used in the treatment of malignant diseases. The drugs and radiation needed to try to eradicate the malignancy unavoidably destroy the bone marrow; intravenous infusion of bone marrow cells restores the marrow by repopulating it. Diseases for which bone marrow transplantation has been used include the leukemias and lymphomas, breast cancer, neuroblastoma, ovarian cancer, germ cell tumors, melanoma, multiple myeloma, and malignant gliomas (NC Gorin, Am J Clin On-col, 14 suppl 1:S5, 1991; Medical Letter, 33:39, 1991; G Gahrton et al, N Engl J Med, 325:1267, 1991)....
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Title: Bone Marrow Transplants for Malignant Diseases
Publication: The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
Issue #: 877
Article Code: 877a
Date: August 21, 1992
Volume: 34
Pages: 79-80
Publication: The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
Issue #: 877
Article Code: 877a
Date: August 21, 1992
Volume: 34
Pages: 79-80
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