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Diseases can be treated by Bone Marrow Transplant? A bone marrow transplant also called a blood stem cell transplant or BMT can treat many diseases. For some diseases, BMT is the only potential cure. There are over 70 diseases that can be treated by BMT. Some of them are listed here. Patients undergo transplant for a wide variety of malignant and non-malignant conditions including: Malignant conditions Hematologic Malignancies Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Solid Tumors Neuroblastoma Brain tumors Ewing sarcoma Rhabdomyosarcoma Non-Malignant Conditions Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Aplastic anemia Fanconi Anemia Hemoglobinopathies Sickle cell anemia Thalassemia Primary Immune Deficiencies Severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome (SCID) Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome Chronic Granulomatous Disease Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis  Read more...

  Why is a bone marrow transplant needed? The objective of a bone marrow transplant is to treat many diseases and types of cancer. When the doses of chemotherapy or radiation needed to treat cancer are so high that a person’s bone marrow stem cells will be permanently harmed or destroyed by the treatment, a bone marrow transplant may be needed. Bone marrow transplants may also be required if the bone marrow has been destroyed by a disease. A bone marrow transplant can be used to: Replace diseased, nonfunctioning bone marrow with healthy functioning bone marrow (for conditions such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, and sickle cell anemia). Regenerate a new immune system that will fight existing or residual leukemia or other cancers not killed by the chemotherapy or radiation used in the transplant. Replace the bone marrow and restore its normal function after high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation are given to treat a malignancy. This process is often ...