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Show: March 9, 2008:
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Bone Marrow Matching
Hosts: David Crabb, MD, Barbara Lewis
Interview: Sherif Farag, MD,PhD
Director, Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program
IU Simon Cancer Center
Patients with leukemia and lymphoma often require very high doses of radiation and intense chemotherapy to attack the cancer. These treatments damage bone marrow to the point that it can no longer produce enough blood cells to keep the patient alive. So it's necessary to transplant stem cells from a matched donor that can stimulate the production of more blood cells.
One problem is that not everyone has a donor with matching stem cells. Our next guest is working on a technique that would allow mis-matched stem cells to work in any case.
Dr. Sherif Farag is director of the bone marrow and stem cell transplantation program at the Simon Cancer Center at the IU School of Medicine.
He spoke with Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb.
Additional Resources:
- Find out more about graft-versus-host problems for bone marrow transplants.
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