Stem Cell Transplant and Therapy Treatments
An autologous stem cell transplant uses healthy blood stem cells from your own body to replace bone marrow that’s not working properly. Using cells from your own body during your stem cell transplant offers advantages when compared to using donor stem cells, as it eliminates potential incompatibility issues.
Who Can Receive this Treatment?
An autologous stem cell transplant might be an option if your body is producing enough healthy bone marrow cells.
An autologous stem cell transplant is most often used to treat:
- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Plasma Cell Disorders
How it Works
An autologous stem cell transplant includes:
- Taking medications to increase the number of stem cells in your body and facilitate the migration of your bone marrow into your blood to be easily collected.
- Filtering stem cells from your blood by a machine that filters out the stem cells from your blood, with the remaining blood returned to your body.
- Undergoing high doses of cancer treatment, called conditioning, to kill your cancer cells.
- Receiving an infusion of your own stem cells into your bloodstream, where they will travel to your bone marrow and begin creating new blood cells.
Following your treatment, you’ll remain under close medical care to watch for side effects and to monitor your body’s response to the transplant.
