About Bone Marrow Transplants (BMTs) and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplants (PBSCT)

In a BMT or PBSCT, the patient's existing bone marrow is treated with high dose chemotherapy and/or radiation (known as conditioning). Following that, stem cells or bone marrow that have been collected earlier from the patient or which are harvested from a donor are given to the patient. The donor can be a relative or an unrelated person, but the tissue type must exactly or closely match that of the patient.

For more information try one of the following web sites:

http://www.bmtinfonet.org/bmt/bmt.book/chapter.1.html#p11
http://www.bmtinfonet.org/index.html
http://comnet.org/nbmtlink
http://www.marrow.org
http://www.acor.org/leukemia/bmtctrs.html