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FAQ: how to cure Thalassemia with Bone Marrow Transplantation


by Eugenio La Mesa

Thalassemia has been curable through Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) for the last 30 years.   Cure2Children has been performing BMT in Pakistan since January 2009, and are planning to begin in India and also in Bangladesh together with Noble Prize Prof. Yunus and his Grameen Health Care.

We are constantly asked by people for information about BMT, so we have prepared these FAQ’s compiled by
- Lawrence Faulkner, Cure2Children Scientific Coordinator
- Dr.Pietro Sodani, Consultant Hematologist and BMT expert, member of the Cure2Children Advisory Board

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  1. #1 by Jennifer Koh - February 19th, 2010 at 10:20

    I’ve a few queries below:
    a) how to be a donor for bone marrow?
    b) my cousin a thalassemic patient how can i help?
    c) do i need special test before i can donate?

    Await for you response and guidance on my queries.

    Thanks and regards

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  2. #2 by Lawrence faulkner - February 20th, 2010 at 10:29

    Hello Jennifer, in general a cousin is unlikely to be a suitable compatible donor. The chance is probably less than 5%. Depending on your age and where you live you may apply for donation at the unrelated bone marrow donor registries (www.bmdw.org), this however will not benefit your cousin directly.

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  3. #3 by Ahmad nouman - April 28th, 2010 at 13:29

    hi here its we are the parents of a child who have thalasimic problem and we had tested him and our some realitives for his bone marrow but all in wane in those his sister and brother is also included but the result of them are not also satisfactory #
    so what we have to do next and his age is 7 an half

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  4. #4 by Lawrence Faulkner - May 3rd, 2010 at 12:19

    Hello Ahmad, if I understand correctly your 7 year-old son with thalassemia has no compatible family donor. We and others are working on transplantation from non-compatible family members and hopefully this will be available soon. More answers at our website’s FAQ: http://www.cure2children.org/node/251

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  5. #5 by jame - May 22nd, 2010 at 14:43

    ME SON IS THALA AND HE IS 19 YEARS OLD AND WE WANT TO DO BMT FOR HEM SOO U CAN HELP ME ABOUT IT PLZ

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