Bone marrow transplant is the new advancement of nuclear medicine technology. Bone marrow is a soft sponge-type blood cell that produces other blood cells and stores. A transplant is done when the bone marrow gets damaged due to diseases or any physical condition.
- Leukemia: prominently known as blood cancer where the blood cell starts dying and no regeneration occurs.
- Lymphoma: A type of cancer that occurs in the immune system called the lymph nodes.
- Acute lymphocytic leukemia: A type of cancer that causes bone marrow to makes defective blood cells. It’s the most common cancer in children, and rare in adults.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A kind of blood cancer that affects white blood cells occurs most in older adults.
- Multiple myeloma: A type of blood cancer that occurs in the white blood cells and mostly treated by nuclear medicine technology.
- Aplastic anemia: A condition when bone marrow can’t produce enough new blood cells.
- Primary immunodeficiency: A disorder occurs in the people who are born with it and it affects your immune system and makes patients more prone to get infections.
- Adrenoleukodystrophy: A genetic condition that damages the tissue around the nerve cells of the brain.
- Hemoglobinopathies: A group of genetic disorders that affect red blood cells. They include sickle cell disease.
- Myelodysplastic syndrome: Occurs when there’s a problem in the bone marrow which makes blood cells to not work properly.
- Neuroblastoma: A type of cancer found commonly in children, that occurs in the nerve cells of adrenal glands, chest, abdomen, or neck.
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