Adult Stem Cell Transplants Reach 1 Million Worldwide - And Are Still Underused

It's been over 50 years since the first experimental use of adult stem cells - bone marrow transplants - began, and in that time over 1,000,000 hematopoietic stem cell transplantations or from a healthy donor to replace those lost to disease or chemotherapy. Using data collected by the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation , Professor Dietger Niederwieser from the University Hospital Leipzig in Germany and international colleagues, systematically analysed the growth of HSCT and changes in its use in 194 WHO member countries since the first transplant in 1957.

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