'Breakthrough' in blood cancers?

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

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

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

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

breakthrough could make umbilical-cord-blood transplants a more widely-used

method for treating blood cancers like leukemia.

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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 the

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

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

> method for treating blood cancers like leukemia.

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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.

C.