Sentences with phrase «post-transplant cyclophosphamide»

Is post-transplant cyclophosphamide — based haploidentical donor transplantation appropriate for racial and ethnic minority patients with hematologic cancers?

Now, the new multi-center study confirms that the post-transplant cyclophosphamide is safe and effective for people who have received fully - matched bone marrow transplants.

The scientists began to use post-transplant cyclophosphamide in clinical trials of fully matched bone marrow transplants in 2004.

Medical centers around the world now use the Johns Hopkins protocol of post-transplant cyclophosphamide, and Luznik says the inexpensive drug is becoming increasingly mainstream in bone marrow transplant regimens.

Yet, scientists lacked an explanation for why post-transplant cyclophosphamide effectively curtailed acute and chronic GVHD.

They found high levels of the regulatory T - cells in patients treated with post-transplant cyclophosphamide, and lab - cultured cells survived cyclophosphamide treatment.

Luznik and his team inventoried types of immune cells present in the blood of bone marrow transplant patients treated with post-transplant cyclophosphamide.

«Our findings may also lead to even wider acceptance of post-transplant cyclophosphamide,» he said.