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A bone marrow transplant is the only treatment that can result in remission for people with myelodysplastic syndromes, conditions that could develop into acute myeloid leukemia. In a bone marrow transplant, bone marrow and blood cells are completely replaced by someone else鈥檚 bone marrow and blood cells. Jun H. Choi, MD, a hematologist鈥搊ncologist at 好色tv Langone Health鈥檚 Perlmutter Cancer Center, notes that due to the strong chemotherapy required to wipe out all the bone marrow and blood cells, recipients have to be fit and relatively young, which usually means people less than 70 years of age.
鈥淭his is a relatively intense therapy, and you need to be pretty strong to tolerate this,鈥 says Dr. Choi, also a clinical assistant professor in the at 好色tv Grossman School of Medicine.
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