Why is a bone marrow transplant is sometimes used as a treatment for Leukemia?
Leukemia is a disease in which white blookd cells grow in an uncontrolled matter. Why is a bone marrow transplant is sometimes used as a treatment for this disease?
- dreamcatcherjm24
GREAT QUESTION
heres why:
because in a bone marrow transplant they first completely remove the persons bone marrow (the red bone marrow, not yellow) which is where the leukocytes (white blood cells) grow. Then they implant the new bone marrow that is healthy and not diseased that way healthy cells will grow.
does that help?:
- reifguy
to give the body a new line of cells who function ,in leaukaemia the wbc count is very high ,but they r cancer dysfunctioning cells.,so the body is ttally irradiated in a sterile environment and a hla compatible donors bone marrow is transplanted and the cell line grows and functions as normal wbcs,to save the immunity function,.
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