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unusual facts about bone marrow transplant



Hardnoise

The group are due to host an event in aide of DJ Swing (subject of a recent BBC documentary, Brian Daley aka DJ Swing is suffering from Multiple Myeloma and desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant) at the Rococo Club in Leicester Square in October 2005.

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour

At one point, in need of a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia, her husband's doctor refused to treat him, believing that he was Persian.


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Devaanshi Mehta

She underwent a bone marrow transplant in April 2007 and a top up of bone marrow in February 2008 at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Eran Thomson

He postponed a Bone Marrow Transplant in 1999 in favor of an experimental treatment, now commonly known as Gleevec (Imatinib).

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.