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People have said I was brave to undergo the bone marrow harvest, but I don't think so.
What felt brave to me was that other kind of harvest and transplant, the soul marrow transplant, getting emotionally naked with another human being, putting aside pride and defensiveness, lifting the layers and sharing with each other our vulnerable souls.
Here I am with my marrow cells after the harvest.
You don't have to wait for a life-or-death situation to clean up the relationships that matter to you, to offer the marrow of your soul and to seek it in another.
Our bone marrow, for example, cranks out billions of blood cells every day.
Bone marrow transplantations offer a curative measure, but these procedures are complicated and often inaccessible.
Over the next four years of chemo, a clinical trial and a bone marrow transplant, the hospital became my home, my bed, the place I lived 24/7.
Bone marrow biopsies found no evidence of leukemia, and that year, in our first three patients we treated, two of three have had durable remissions now for eight years, and one had a partial remission.
Their bodies had become veritable bioreactors for these CAR T cells, producing millions and millions of CAR T cells in the bone marrow, blood and tumor masses.
Cancer had invaded her bone marrow, her liver, her spleen.
To a technique called microfracture, where surgeons create small holes in the bone, allowing bone marrow stem cells to leak out and form new cartilage.
In the process they discovered the gas was irrevocably damaging the bone marrow of affected soldiers— halting its ability to make blood cells.
Cancer cells share a characteristic with bone marrow: both replicate rapidly.
Hair follicles, the cells of the mouth, the gastrointestinal lining, the reproductive system, and bone marrow are hit nearly as hard as cancer.
[To learn more, visit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Health Organization] So I am a pediatric cancer doctor and stem-cell researcher at Stanford University where my clinical focus has been bone marrow transplantation.
Now, inspired by Jill Bolte Taylor last year, I didn't bring a human brain, but I did bring a liter of bone marrow.
And bone marrow is actually what we use to save the lives of tens of thousands of patients, most of whom have advanced malignancies like leukemia and lymphoma and some other diseases.
We're sending his marrow across the country to save the life of a child with leukemia.
So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?
And we have a flexible, powered catheter with a special wire loop tip that stays inside the crunchy part of the marrow and follows the contours of the hip, as it moves around.
So it enables you to very rapidly aspirate, or suck out, rich bone marrow very quickly through one hole.
And we found, to our surprise, that we not only got bone marrow out, but we got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner, compared to the normal device.
Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.
Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood-forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem-cell therapy for over 40 years.
In the last decade there's been an explosion of use of bone marrow stem cells to treat the patient's other diseases such as heart disease, vascular disease, orthopedics, tissue engineering, even in neurology to treat Parkinson's and diabetes.
It may encourage more people to sign up to be potential live-saving bone marrow donors.
He has a character describing the snowflake, and he says he "shuddered at its perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death."
Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the ice to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.
Michael Keaton agrees to donate bone marrow to the dying son of a detective, but then escapes.
And to top that Andy Garcia (father of the dying boy) and a doctor help the criminal so as to get the bone marrow.
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