In the research, analysis was conducted on more than 10,000 unrelated donor stem cell transplants which took place between 1999 and 2014, where the donor and patient were HLA - matched. (regmednet.com)
He said this kind of add - on therapy will promote the wide - spread application of donor stem cell transplants as a curative therapy for hematological malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma, without the nasty side effects that often come along with transplantation. (cityofhope.org)
Abatacept, when added to the standard drug regimen used to prevent GvHD, reduced the occurrence of acute, grade III - IV GvHD from 32 to 3 percent in pediatric and adult patients who underwent mismatched unrelated donor stem cell transplants to treat advanced cancer and other blood disorders. (sciencedaily.com)