After screening half a million individual bacterial plaques of each cDNA library with autologous serum, 204 reactive clones were isolated.
Autologous SCT is feasible, safe and can result in complete remission in a significant proportion of patients with tumor stage mycosis fungoides.
However, GVHD is not an issue with regards to autologous or syngeneic stem cell transplant.
In the second type of bone marrow transplant, called an autologous bone marrow transplant, some of the patient's own marrow is taken out and treated with a combination of anticancer drugs to kill all the abnormal cells.
Patients undergoing autologous BMT or PBSCT from the initiation of conditioning chemoradiotherapy.
See Gauchers News, April 2003 for an article on autologous blood transfusions.
Since there is no need for laboratory investigations such as typing and crossmatching, autologous blood is more quickly reinfused than donor blood.
They may receive intensive chemotherapy, and in some cases autologous stem cell transplants, such treatments need very skilled nursing and medical care.