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Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplants: A Guide for Patients and Their Loved Ones
$12.95
by Susan K. Stewart
Illustrations by Norm Bendell
©2024
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A comprehensive, easy-to-read book that's a must for patients undergoing a transplant using donor cells (allogeneic transplant). The book walks the reader through what to expect before, during, and after transplant and includes insights from patients and caregivers.
Chapters include
- History of Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplantation
- An Introduction to Transplantation - Steps Involved
- Choosing a Transplant Center
- Finding a Donor
- Being a Donor
- Insurance and Financial Help
- Emotional Challenges
- Conditioning/Preparative Regimen
- Graft-versus-Host Disease
- Infection
- Nutrition
- Relieving Pain
- When Your Child Needs a Transplant
- Caregiving
- Planning for Survivorship
- Late and Long-Term Effects of Transplant
- Appendices
- About Blood Cells
- Understanding Blood Tests
Many thanks to the medical advisors for this edition of the book:
- Linda Burns, MD, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research
- Paula Charuhas Macris, MS, RD, CSO, FAND, CD, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Guang-Shing Cheng, MD, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Jessica Ciralsky, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Corey Cutler, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Gary Goldstein, Stanford Health Care
- Areej El-Jawahri, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Luis Isola, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Robert Krance, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital
- Catherine Lee, MD, MS, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Stephanie Lee, MD, MPH, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Navneet Majhail, MD, Sarah Cannon Transplant and Cellular Therapy Network
- Richard Maziarz, MD, Oregon Health & Science University
- Sandra Mitchell, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, National Cancer Institute
- Judith Paice, PhD, RN, Northwestern Medicine
- Michael Parsons, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Steven Pavletic, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute
- Doris Ponce, MD, MS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Marcello Rotta, MD, Colorado Blood Cancer Institute
- Scott Rowley, MD, Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University
- Ajay Sheshadri, MD, MSCI, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Nathaniel Treister, DMD, DMSc, Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center