Debbie GarrettL. YoderMedsurg nursing : official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical NursesGarrett, D &Yoder, L (2007). An Overview of Stem Cell Transplant as aTreatment for Cancer. MEDSURG Nursing; Vol. 16/No. 3.PP.183-189....
Stem cell transplant: Stem cell transplants are procedures that restore blood-forming stem cells in cancer patients who have had theirs destroyed by very high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy. From:Starving Cancer Cells: Evidence-Based Strategies to Slow Cancer Progression,2021 ...
Aug. 2, 2010 -- Doctors in Italy announced they have used patients' own stem cells to grow trachea tissue that led to seemingly successful transplanted windpipes in two patients diagnosed with trachea cancer. Doctors regenerated tissue from the patients' nose and bone marrow stem cells...
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that extremely rare, harmful genetic mutations present in healthy donors' stem cells may be passed on to cancer patients receiving stem cell transplants. ...
After the transplant, patients spend two to six weeks in the hospital waiting for the new stem cells to begin making blood cells. During this time, blood cell counts run low. Patients are closely watched and may get doses of anti-bacterial, antifungal, and antiviral drugs to prevent life-...
After the transplant, patients spend two to six weeks in the hospital waiting for the new stem cells to begin making blood cells. During this time, blood cell counts run low. Patients are closely watched and may get doses of anti-bacterial, antifungal, and antiviral drugs to prevent life-...
Is it safe to undergo a stem cell transplant during COVID-19 pandemic? The answer appears to be yes assuming appropriate precautions have been put in place. The Dana Farber Cancer Institute has reported no differences in infection or survival rates between patients getting an autologous stem cel...
Stem cell transplants are procedures that restore blood-forming stem cells in cancer patients. Read the Article Conditions Related to Stem Cell Transplantation UAMS Health providers care for a broad range of conditions, some of which may not be listed below. ...
The majority of experiments the researchers performed were in mice but were also confirmed by other tests on specimens from 12 cancer patients at the Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina. In the mouse studies, more than 80% of ILC2 cells donated to mice as part of the transplant tr...
Cancer physicians have long disagreed about whether stem cell transplants from donors with an asymptomatic blood condition called clonal hematopoiesis (CH) put recipients at risk for subsequent health problems. Such concerns have even prompted some trans