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May 2008

Welcome to BMTresources.org.

Learn Almost Everything You Need to Know about Your Bone Marrow Transplant or Stem Cell Transplant.

Our Goal
We offer patients having a bone marrow transplant (BMT) or peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT) access to an enormous amount of information about these procedures. You’ll learn everything you need to know to sail through your treatment with flying colors.

For patients considering a transplant, we’ll give you the tools you’ll need to help you decide if one of these procedures is your best treatment option.

Learn About the Seven Phases of a Bone Marrow Transplant or Stem Cell Transplant
All transplants have about seven phases. You can familiarize yourself with each phase or select just the phases of particular interest to you.

Patients already scheduled to have their BMT or PBSCT can begin with Phase 4. Those considering these procedures should start with Phase 1.

Just click on the Seven Phases button in the column to the left and you’ll be on your way.

Best of luck. Send me an e-mail if you have any questions not answered by this Web site. My address is mytransplant@sbcglobal.net.

Mark Patton enjoying one of his five
bone marrow and stem cell transplants.

Transplant Resources

New Post-Transplant Care Guidelines
The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) has developed new post-transplant guidelines for patients and physicians. These new guides, in autologous and allogeneic versions, provide checklists for proper long-term follow-up care after a marrow, peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or cord blood transplant. You can download one or both at www.cibmtr.org/posttransplant.

Expanded Database of Allogeneic Transplant Outcomes
Federal legislation in 2005 and 2006 set the groundwork for the National Marrow Donor Program to offer an expanded database that will provide data on all allos to physicians and the public.

This new database, called MatchView, will allow patients to enter their HLA-tissue typing results and receive a real-time report showing the number of potential adult donor and cord blood unit matches in the NMDP's registry.

To get the complete scoop, visit the NMDP site at:www.marrow.org.

Contact Information

MGC Publications
1208 E. Hermitage Rd.
Bayside, WI 53217

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Over 140 Things You Need to Know about Your Autologous Bone Marrow or Stem Cell Transplant

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