JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, March 24, 2025 – Imagine being so weak that you can barely walk, you have a constant headache, and you can’t think clearly because your brain isn’t ...

A blood and marrow transplant (BMT) is a treatment used for certain cancer types that works by resetting the body’s ability to make healthy blood cells. It does this by replacing damaged or destroyed ...

For four decades, Ohio State blood and bone marrow transplant innovation has improved cancer care with an increasing emphasis on patients’ quality of life. Since February of 1984, more than 6,500 ...

A blackboard hangs in the office of bone marrow transplant pioneer Rainer Storb, MD, in Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s South Lake Union campus in Seattle. That board is where many of the lifesaving ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas — Every three minutes, about one person is diagnosed with a form of blood cancer for which the treatment could require a bone marrow transplant with healthy bone marrow ...

During the early days of research on bone marrow transplants, the procedure was difficult for patients to endure and had a miserable track record because of thorny complications that many experts had ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways Myelosuppression is when bone marrow can't make enough blood cells.

When doctors told Joe and Zaundra Russo of Ahwatukee that their 19-year-old son, JP, would need a second bone marrow ...