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transplantation [‚tranz·plan′tā·shən] (biology) The artificial removal of part of an organism and its replacement in the body of the same or of a different individual. To remove a plant from one location and replant it in another place. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| ``(Ashley is) one of the bravest people we have ever had the honor to treat,'' said Joseph Rosenthal, her doctor and director of the pediatric bone marrow transplantation unit at City of Hope. We used this combination of keywords because the clinical effects on function and the physiological effects following either stem cell or bone marrow transplantation are similar. While most high-dose studies have involved leukemias and solid tumors called lymphomas, a combination of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation also looks promising in breast cancer patients and may ultimately prove useful for other tumors, says Karen Antman of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. |
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