Yes, you can have more than one bone marrow transplant.

Yes, a majority of patients have chemotherapy and sometimes radiotherapy after receiving a bone marrow transplant. Doctors can even give higher doses of chemotherapy to these patients.

Yes, in some cases a second bone marrow transplant is not only possible but also beneficial.

Yes, there are certain cases during which pregnant women have had successful bone marrow transplants.

No, for someone to be a bone marrow donor they need to have great health, be within a certain weight limit, and be between the ages of 18 and 60, but preferably 18 and 44. And most importantly of all, the donor and the patient need to have matching stem cells. Find out more on […]

Yes, umbilical cord blood can provide the necessary replacement tissue that is needed for a transplant.

While a bone marrow transplant can cause some physical changes, the patient’s eye color doesn’t change.

During a bone marrow transplant, the patient receives the donor’s stem cells and their DNA within the cells. After a transplant, the patient will naturally still have their own DNA, but they will also have traces of the donor’s DNA in their blood. And according to some research, the donor’s DNA might also be found […]

If the donor and the recipient have different blood types, the recipient’s blood type after bone marrow transplant will change into the donor’s over time. It may take a few weeks or even months, but it will happen.