Hematology

Why Choose Us?

At Kaizen Oncology Network, we give the best possible care. Our doctors, nurses, and nurse practitioners are highly skilled and work along with a team of other experts, which include gastroenterologists, radiologists, immunologists, kidney specialists, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and rehabilitation doctors.

Treatments

There are 2 main types of transplants. They are named based on who donates the stem cells.

Autologous: Auto means self. The stem cells in autologous transplants come from the same person who will get the transplant, so the patient is their donor.

Allogeneic: 'Allo' means other. The stem cells in allogeneic transplants are from a person other than the patient, either a matched related or unrelated donor.

Autologous

Experienced Oncologists from Kaizen collect stem cells from the same patient undergoing the process and perform a transplant. Here the patient and the donor are the same people.

Benefits of autologous stem cell transplant

As our oncologists follow the procedure of giving your stem cells to you, there is no complication that your body might reject them. This is a procedure that offers a high rate of success. This procedure is otherwise called ‘engraftment’. These replaced stem cells grow and make healthy stem cells in your bone marrow.

Allogeneic

Stem cells are extracted for another donor and transplanted to the patient. Here the donor and the patient are different persons.

Umbilical cord transplant

Just after the delivery of a baby, stem cells are collected from the umbilical cord, which are counted, tested, and typed before storing, for transplantation purposes.

Conditions that require bone marrow transplant

Bone marrow transplants can benefit patients with a variety of bone marrow diseases that are both cancerous and noncancerous such as

• Blood cancers, such as leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, lymphoma, multiple myeloma
• Conditions that affect the production of bone marrow cells, such as aplastic anemia, sickle cell anemia, neuroblastoma, congenital neutropenia, POEMS syndrome
• Childhood blood cancers
• Primary immune deficiency

Finding a match

There are numerous and various combinations of HLA types of tissues, which makes it challenging to find the right match. HLA antigens are got from both the father and the mother and are inherited.

Usually, the process of searching for a donor begins with the siblings of the patient (as they are from the same parents). There is a great chance to find the perfect match with a sibling and the percentage of chance is 1 out of every 4.

If a perfect match could not be found among siblings, the search would extend to relatives like half-siblings, and parents, and can also be searched among your cousins, uncles, and aunts. These matches have even lesser chances of getting a match. Spouses and other non-related people also might not prove to be a good match. When the transplant team doesn’t find a match here, the next search would be further extended to the general public.

Though it is very unlikely to find a match, there is the possibility that you might get a match because your search is wider now. To go on with this procedure, the transplant visits transplant registries, which are the list of volunteer donors. These registries have the data of millions of donors and an equal number of cord blood units.