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Article: Hospital clocks up bone marrow milestone.
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- Birmingham Mail (England)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2009
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Byline: Alison Dayani
A BIRMINGHAM hospital has reached the landmark of its 1,500th bone marrow transplant.
Former patients treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Edgbaston, met up to celebrate the milestone.
Transplants involve taking healthy stem cells from bone marrow of a donor and injecting them into a leukaemia patient's own bone marrow to increase production of blood cells.
Professor Charles Craddock, consultant haematologist, said the first transplant was performed in the summer of 1982, but Birmingham medics now carry out an average of 150 a year.
"It was an extremely moving celebration and affirmation of life to ...