Luznik and his team inventoried types of immune cells present in the blood of bone marrow transplant patients treated with post-transplant cyclophosphamide. (sciencedaily.com)
«This condition is one of the main reasons that many bone marrow transplant patients endure long hospital stays after their diseases are cured,» said Kean, who wears a bracelet around her badge from a pediatric patient cured of leukemia one year ago, but is still in the hospital due to complications from GVHD. (sciencedaily.com)
«This is a mysterious disease that has perplexed doctors who treat bone marrow transplant patients for decades,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, a pediatric cancer specialist at Seattle Children's Research Institute and lead study author. (sciencedaily.com)