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Diseases Treated by Bone Marrow or Cord Blood Transplant

January 10, 2008 – 12:33 am

For patients diagnosed with leukemia, or certain immune system and genetic disorders, a bone marrow transplant (BMT) or cord blood transplant (CBT) may be a treatment option. See the list below which includes diagnoses for which a transplant is either currently a standard treatment or a newer treatment option.

Leukemias / Lymphomas

• Acute myelogenous leukemia
• Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia
• Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
• Hodgkin’s lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders

Severe aplastic anemia and other marrow failure states, including:

• Fanconi anemia
• Severe aplastic anemia
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Amegakaryocytosis / congenital thrombocytopenia

SCID and other inherited immune system disorders, including:

• Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID, all sub-types)
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

Hemoglobinopathies, including:

• Sickle cell disease
• Beta thalassemia major

Hurler’s syndrome and other inherited metabolic disorders, including:

• Hurler’s syndrome (MPS-IH)
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy

Myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders, including:

• Refractory anemia (all types)
• Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia (myelofibrosis)
• Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and other histiocytic disorders

Other malignancies

Childhood cancers