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5 unusual facts about Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation


Carlos Jorge Neto Martins

On 15 November 2011, during Portugal's Euro 2012 playoff home fixture against Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was announced that Martins' three-year-old son Gustavo suffered from a rare bone marrow condition, needing an urgent transplant.

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Georges Mathé, a French oncologist, performed the first European bone marrow transplant in 1959 on five Yugoslavian nuclear workers whose own marrow had been damaged by irradiation caused by a Criticality accident at the Vinča Nuclear Institute, but all of these transplants were rejected.

HSCT

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, a medical procedure involving transplantation of bone marrow or other blood-forming cells.

Lambda Phi Epsilon

The fraternity's national philanthropy raises awareness for the importance of bone marrow drives.

Vjekoslav Šutej

In August 2008 Šutej was diagnosed with myeloid leukemia and later underwent chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplantation procedure at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.



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