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Article: BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS AID CHERNOBYL VICTIMS, RESEARCH.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- June 5, 1986
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Byline: Laurie Anderson
Under optimum conditions, bone marrow transplants offer at most a 60 percent chance of survival. But, local experts say, the odds of this medical procedure succeeding on victims of the Chernobyl reactor accident are far lower.
The bone marrow transplants preformed in a Moscow hospital may be the only hope for those whose bone marrow - the tissue that produces blood - was damaged by high doses of radiation released from the Ukrainian nuclear power plant when a reactor caught fire the weekend of April 26. However, the transplants require intense preparation and exorbitant care, two things hard to come by in an emergency situation. ...