An autologous transplant uses the patient's own cells or marrow for the procedure.
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But Tsongas and his doctors decided to try the autologous transplant.
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"Using autologous transplants for non-malignant diseases hasn't been done until very recently, " he said.
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But it rarely happens with autologous transplants, which use the patient's own blood or bone marrow cells for the transplant.
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Women have their own marrow removed and stored before the chemotherapy begins and replanted after it ends, an autologous transplant.
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"But most of these transplants involved the use of donor marrow, which is more risky than autologous transplants, " he said.
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Nearly 4, 000 autologous transplants have been done for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in North America since 1989, according to a Milwaukee-based registry.
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The procedure, called an autologous transplant, can extend people's lives, but not as much as a transplant from a donor can.
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It will be nearly identical to an autologous transplant, except that some of the patient's stem cells will be genetically altered before they are returned.
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In the first, known as an autologous transplant, marrow was taken from Tsongas before he received heavy chemotherapy and radiation aimed at destroying the lymphoma cells.
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