Bone marrow transplant

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue in the center of bones that makes your body’s blood cells, including the immunity cells that fight infection. Blood cells develop from immature cells, called stem cells, that live mostly in bone marrow.

Bone marrow transplants replace marrow destroyed by disease, chemotherapy or radiation with healthy, transplanted bone marrow from another person. The transplanted stem cells grow into blood cells. A bone marrow transplant is a very complex treatment involving chemotherapy, with or without radiation therapy.

Park Nicollet Cancer Center patients who require this treatment are referred to a bone marrow transplant center.

For more information, call 952-993-5700.