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Bone Marrow Transplant Procedure & Types

Diseases can be treated by Bone Marrow Transplant?

A bone marrow transplant also called a blood stem cell transplant or BMT can treat many diseases. For some diseases, BMT is the only potential cure. There are over 70 diseases that can be treated by BMT. Some of them are listed here.

Patients undergo transplant for a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant conditions including:
Malignant conditions
Hematologic Malignancies

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Solid Tumors
Neuroblastoma
Brain tumors
Ewing sarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma

Non-Malignant Conditions
Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes

Aplastic anemia
Fanconi Anemia

Hemoglobinopathies

Sickle cell anemia
Thalassemia

Primary Immune Deficiencies

Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID)
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Chronic Granulomatous Disease
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis 

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