Is bone marrow transplantation effective for leukemia?

The most effective method for treating leukemia is bone marrow transplantation because it is a malignant blood disease. However, bone marrow transplantation treatment also requires attention to successful matching, and the success rate of bone marrow transplantation will also be affected by various factors.

1. Leukemia, commonly known as "blood cancer", is a highly malignant blood disease. The natural course of leukemia is only three months. In recent years, with the development of medical technology, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other methods can be used to curb diseased white blood cells and prolong the patient's life. However, this method has serious side effects and a high rate of compounding, which not only brings great pain to patients, but also imposes a heavy burden on families and society.

2. Bone marrow transplantation has been used to treat leukemia internationally since the 1960s , and has achieved good results. Since the 1980s, stem cell transplantation based on the same principle has achieved even more significant therapeutic effects in clinical applications and is currently the most advanced medical method for curing leukemia internationally. At the same time, in addition to curing leukemia, bone marrow (stem cell) transplantation can also treat a variety of incurable diseases such as severe aplastic anemia, thalassemia, hereditary immunodeficiency, severe radiation sickness, certain malignant tumors, etc. ?

3. According to epidemiological statistics , the natural incidence of leukemia is 3 in 100,000. There are 40,000 new leukemia patients in the country each year. The main age of onset is under 30 years old, and children account for more than 50%. Most of them need transplant surgery. my country has implemented the family planning policy since the 1960s. The possibility of finding marrow donors among compatriots is very small, and we can only rely on non-blood-related donors to provide bone marrow. Although the matching rate among unrelated people is only one in 5,000 to 1 in 10,000, it has gone beyond the small circle of the family. As long as there are enough voluntary donors, it can still provide a chance of cure for most patients.