HLA-typing and genetic typing are far more important than blood typing when it comes to bone marrow transplant [BMT] or peripheral blood stem cell transplant [PBSCT].
You can find out all you need to know about Bone Marrow Transplant on the National Cancer Institute Web site:
[url="http://www.nci.nih.gov/"]http://www.nci.nih.gov/[/url]
Other excellent sources of information include the major teaching/research cancer centers such as Johns Hopkins, M.D. Anderson and Fred Hutchinson [which pioneered this procedure].
Also recommend you visit ACOR.org as well as the Bone Marrow Foundation, and the National Bone Marrow Registry. |