Re: Re: 'Breakthrough' in blood cancers?

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That explains a lot. Thanks.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:18 PM, hey00nanc <ncogan@...> wrote:

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> > Have you seen this? What are the implications for CML, I wonder?

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> > www.komonews.com/news/local/81940967.html?

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> > The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Wash. cleared a hurdle in

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> > use of umbilical cord blood - using a new life to help save another. The

> > breakthrough could make umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more

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> A transplant is still a transplant.......although cord blood transplants

> have a bit less graft vs host disease (but they are slower to engraft). They

> have been doing cord blood transplants for quite a few years...problem is

> that there are not enough stem cells for an adult, so they have to use

> several cords. Cord blood does not have to be as good a match. Still, this

> is for diseases where people do not survive without a transplant.....very

> few CMLers will have a transplant or need one.

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