Patients who receive a blood stem cell transplant from a donor outside of their family to treat leukemia and other blood diseases are more likely to have graft failure but less likely to experience graft-versus-host disease, a condition caused by the donor cells attacking the recipient’s body, if the transplanted blood cells come directly from a donor’s bone marrow, rather than from blood stem cells circulating in the donor’s bloodstream (PBSCs), according to new research.
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