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Originally Posted by Waddymelon
Thats amazing. Is this a common treatment now or was that something experimental?
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a stem cell transplant in 2001 wasnt too common...usually it was a bone marrow transplant for people with acute leukemia when all other methods failed to work..
i was lucky that they found a donor with a similar leukocyte antigen tissue type in germany and the germans used the newer procedure of extracting stem cells as opposed to bone marrow...the stem cells were flown to vancouver where they were induced into me...i had a terrible time with my body rejecting the cells and my blood type changed from type O, to type B which was the donors blood type... it took me a few years to stabilize after that
