New cancer treatment gives Westbrook family hopeKeepMEcurrent.comBrazier has been battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes, since 2009, but now a new stem cell transplant she will undergo next month may save her life. Courtesy p…
Bone marrow registry launched in NigeriaThe Nation NewspaperOkoye said: “For instance, leukaemia and lymphoma are common blood cancers in Nigeria that can be cured with bone marrow transplantation. Around 1-2 million people suffer from sickle cell di…
Irradiated sterile cornea holds promiseModernMedicineCorneal transplantation is the most successful and the most common form of tissue transplant surgery, Dr. Daoud noted. In the United States, about 50000 corneal transplants are performed, and the sam…
Researchers Take a Step Forward in Transplanting Pig Cells to Regenerate Human …Science Daily (press release)The results of the research, published in The Journal of Immunology, indicate that these cells, characteristic of the innate immune system pl…
Researchers take a step forward in transplanting pig cells to regenerate human …Medical XpressThe results of the research, published in The Journal of Immunology, indicate that these cells, characteristic of the innate immune system, play an importan…
IDIBELL researchers take a step forward in transplanting pig cells to …EurekAlert (press release)The results of the research, published in The Journal of Immunology, indicate that these cells, characteristic of the innate immune system, play an impor…
Carrboro man to get stem cell transplantChapel Hill NewsBY ELIZABETH SWARINGEN, Special to The Chapel Hill News CHAPEL HILL – Three infusions of your own stem cells – each infusion over a 21-day hospitalization – can seem daunting. But, when it's y…
Pigs As Organ Donors? Maybe SomedayNASDAQAlthough immunological challenges and other barriers associated with xenotransplantation need to be overcome, the results of preclinical transplantation of pig cells—eg, islets, neuronal cells, hepatocyte…
Birds In Spring: This Is Your Brain On MyelomaThe Myeloma BeaconThat's a question for many cancer patients and survivors, but it is particularly one for those multiple myeloma patients who have had at least one stem cell transplant. Getting a stem …
Blood Drive Planned For Young Cancer PatientKOCO Oklahoma CityMia is battling cancer and remains hospitalized to begin a stem-cell transplant. Because her treatments are so aggressive, the Student Nurse Association at Northern Oklahoma College in Tonka…