REVOLUTIONIZING BLOOD CANCER TREATMENT: CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS PROVIDE HOPE FOR NON-MATCHED PATIENTS Archive HOME > REVOLUTIONIZING BLOOD CANCER TREATMENT: CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTS PROVIDE HOPE FOR NON-MATCHED PATIENTS

In the past, people with blood cancer’s only hope of a cure was getting a stem cell or bone marrow transplant from a donor, which is called an allogeneic transplant.  These patients needed a matched donor, thus the recipient and donor had to have the same immunologic proteins, called HLA. If not a match, the […]