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Article: New sickle cell treatment successfully completed on girl; Procedure takes place of chemotherapy, radiation that accompany bone-marrow transplants.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 21, 1999
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1/3 Researchers at the University of Minnesota have devised a way to spare patients with sickle cell disease from the painful and sometimes dangerous chemotherapy and radiation therapy that almost always go along with bone-marrow transplants - a rare but potentially effective treatment for the disease.
Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, a pediatric hematologist at the university, and other researchers successfully completed the new procedure on one patient, a 9-year-old girl from Buffalo, N.Y., who was given bone marrow from her 12-year-old brother. The transplant was completed Aug. 27, and so far blood tests show that the donor cells are taking over the job of ...