According to senior medical officer Dr Albert Lie Kwok-wai, PBSC replacing bone marrow in autologous transplant offers advantages over the use of bone marrow, like more rapid recovery of blood cells.
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To conceal their practices, BTS employees forged a variety of the necessary certificates and even, as in the case of an exhumed Queens woman, replaced bone with PVC piping to fool family members of the deceased.
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"This field will explode " and may even replace bone marrow and other sources of stem cells, said Dr . Andrew L . Pecora, director of the blood and marrow stem cell center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.
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Talk of new doors opening for U . S . soy meal as European countries are forced to replace bone and meat meal, a meal source used to feed livestock, poultry, and hogs, promoted a sharp turnaround in the soy futures market's mood.
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But remember : You lose the most bone in the six years after menopause, so if osteoporosis is your major concern, consider starting hormones at 50, because estrogen only protects against future bone loss _ it does not replace bone already gone _ and this protection wears off if you stop.
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Some parents choose to have this blood diverted from the baby's umbilical blood transfer through early cord clamping and cutting, to freeze for long-term storage at a cord blood bank should the child ever require the cord blood stem cells ( for example, to replace bone marrow destroyed when treating leukemia ).
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Because it is rich in stem cells, which form other blood cells and bone marrow, and because it may be accepted more readily when transplanted to someone else, researchers are intensely interested in its potential to replace bone marrow destroyed by cancer therapy and perhaps someday to help treat everything from AIDS to genetic diseases.
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Although the new study does not suggest that stem cell transplantation will replace bone marrow transplants as the preferred treatment for blood disorders, it offers hope for patients who cannot find marrow donor matches, said Dr . Robert Soiffer, co-director of the Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Program at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
