Indian Apollo Hospitals are famed for its success rate in bone marrow transplants. But the centre is offering ‘autologous’ transplant procedure in which one’s own bone marrow is used. It is working on introducing the advanced ‘allogeneic’ procedure which is more critical because, in this process, the bone marrow of siblings or donors is used. Dr Raychaudhuri said bone marrow transplant is needed to treat different types of blood cancer, certain genetic blood and immunity disorders like thalassemia, and severe aplastic anaemia. He said diabetic children’s insulin dependency can be cut significantly through bone marrow transplant.

Source: bd News24 May 06, 2017 19:07 UTC