hematology and oncology
Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Introduction
 Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation using cells from bone marrow, blood, or less often, umbilical cord blood cells are given after high- or moderate-dose chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. Donors can be the person with cancer (an autotransplant) or a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)–matched related or unrelated person (an allotransplant—see also Autotransplants are used to treat lymphomas, plasma cell myeloma, and rare solid cancers such as Testicular Cancer , Wilms and Ewing sarcomas, and Allotransplants are used to treat Overview of Leukemia and some lymphomas. 