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Bone Marrow Transplants: Stem Cell Selection & Gene Therapy Part 1
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS: Stem Cell Selection & Gene Therapy The constant need for fresh blood cells is essential to life. Bone marrow transplants are generally used to treat patients with life threatening diseases like leukemia, lymphoma or Hodgkin's Disease - diseases of the blood-forming tissues. Chemotherapy or radiation, the usual treatments for these illnesses, unfortunately also kill good cells with the bad. One revolutionary new treatment that may help is stem cell selection and transplantation.
Blood cells obtained from the patient before chemotherapy are treated to separate the needed stem cells and remove cancer cells. These treated cells are returned to the patient after chemotherapy. Donors can also be used to provide stem cells that are cancer free. A new approach is available for the first time that allows older and weaker patients to get this life-saving procedure. And an innovative system involving gene therapy with stem cell transplants is revolutionizing treatment for severely immunodeficient patients.
BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS: Stem Cell Selection & Gene Therapy is co-hosted by Richard E. Champlin, M.D., Chairman, Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, M.D. Anderson Clinic; David Williams, M.D., Indiana University of Medicine and Robert Negrin, M.D., Stanford University Medical Group.
This 30-minute documentary program produced as part of ITV's award-winning The Cutting Edge Medical Report, airs over WebMD Television and is made possible by unrestricted educational grants by Nexell Therapeutics, Inc. and Takara Shuzo Co., LTD. Biomedical Group.
For additional information on air dates or to order a VHS copy of the program, call 1-888-380-6500.
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