Can people die after bone marrow transplantation

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Bone marrow transplantation, for some patients, is a necessary operation, through bone marrow transplantation can let the disease be treated. Transplantation can make patients live longer. However, some patients still worry that they are wasting their time. Let's talk about whether people can die after bone marrow transplantation.

Can people die after bone marrow transplantation

First: if acute leukemia remission, five years do not relapse, we call long-term survival, ten years do not relapse, we call cure. But there are also some special cases, such as childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, relapse more than ten years later. Say acute leukemia, whether it is acute lymphoblastic leukemia or acute myeloid leukemia, depending on chemotherapy, about 20% to 30% of the patients can be cured, that is, to achieve a decade without recurrence. If there are conditions to do bone marrow transplantation, the cure rate will be higher.

Second, with the development of molecular biology and biological genetics, the prognosis of leukemia has been greatly improved. "Leukemia is an incurable disease" has become the past. Regular and systematic treatment can make the majority of leukemia patients long-term disease-free survival, or even recovery. Bone marrow transplantation can live more than 5 years.

Third: it is difficult to have a clear answer about how long the patients can live after bone marrow transplantation. Although about 60% of the adult patients with acute leukemia can have a long survival period of more than 3 years after allogeneic or homogeneic bone marrow transplantation, and some of them have a long survival period of more than 5-6 years, how long they can live after bone marrow transplantation depends on a variety of factors, and many patients with bone marrow transplantation often suffer from immune rejection and infection Dying from dying.

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Bone marrow transplantation is a better way for leukemia and other diseases. However, there is no solution to the problem of how long can we live after bone marrow transplantation. After all, everyone's constitution is different, so their endurance is different, so the survival time is not the same and uncertain.