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BMT Basics | Resources for Patients and Families - This BMT Basics website is a consumer guide to blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) for patient families and those who support them. The idea for the site grew out of my own personal experiences as someone who has undergone a BMT, and my professional experience as an advocate whose works focuses on helping to end…

  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/origin-of-this-site/ About | BMT Basics - As is the case for most patients, my introduction to the BMT world came about quite unexpectedly, after I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in early 1996. I knew little about the disease except that it was a form of blood cancer, which used to be most common among elderly men. However, it's incidence in…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/origin-of-this-site/using-this-site/ Using This Site | BMT Basics - BMTBasics.org offers both specific information needed by patient families and looks at BMT access issues from an equity perspective. Patients everywhere share a universal need  for information that is reliable, readily available, and easy to understand, on every aspect of the BMT process. But there has long been an information gap about the additional special…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/origin-of-this-site/acknowledgments/ Acknowledgments | BMT Basics - The assistance and knowledge of many people contributed to the creation of this website. Extraordinary thanks are due to Scott Ramos and Anne Katahira-Sims for their unflagging support and technical assistance that made the original version a reality, and to Scott Ramos for his ongoing dedication to helping  BMT Basics  continue as a community service.…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/origin-of-this-site/how-to-help/ How to Help | BMT Basics - All of us can help to ensure that every patient with a life-threatening illness will be able to receive a BMT when needed. Your assistance can make an important difference to give all patients an equal chance to survive. Here are some ways  to help: Register to become a BMT donor. Sponsor a donor recruitment…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/ Basics | BMT Basics - When a BMT has been recommended for their child, families need to quickly learn all about this highly technical and complex procedure. This section explains the steps involved, starting with a detailed explanation in clear language about how BMT  candidates and donors are matched.  Special attention is devoted to the topic of what patients from…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/ Steps to BMT | BMT Basics - BMT is often described as a journey, as it is a long process with many steps and phases, not just a single , one-time event. Parents can better help their child throughout the journey when they are educated about what to expect along the way. Highly-specialized education is needed, comparable to learning to speak a…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/what-is-a-bmt/ What is a BMT? | BMT Basics - A BMT is literally the transfer of a new immune system from donor to recipient  to replace one that is diseased or malfunctioning. The immune system protects the body against infections and other foreign bodies which can cause malfunction of any of its systems The transfer, or transplant, takes place after the recipient’s defective immune…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/the-transplant-decision/ Transplant Decision | BMT Basics - After receiving medical recommendations, each family must make a decision about whether or not their child will undergo a BMT. Parents need thorough information on this treatment option, as well as an understanding when a BMT should be done. A face-to-face conference will be set up for the parents (and the child also, if age…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/choosing-the-donor-cell-source/ Donor Cell Source | BMT Basics - HLA Testing The oncologist’s office or transplant center (if patient is already being seen there) will assist patients in making arrangement for HLA testing of the basic A, B, and DR antigens for themselves and their sibling(s). Special arrangements can be made for testing of siblings living out of area and/or out of country. These…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/the-search-request/ The Search Request | BMT Basics - Once the decision has been made that a patient should move forward with the plan to undergo a BMT, s/he will be referred to a transplant center (TC). For many, if not most patients whose parents are reading this website, this will be the BMT program run by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance or SCCA.…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/selecting-a-bmt-center/ Selecting a BMT Center | BMT Basics - The selection of a BMT center for your child is usually made on the basis of what is available based on both medical and practical criteria. On the medical side, the important issue is to find a center experienced in treating your child’s disease with unrelated-donor BMTs. Points to consider also include: outcomes of transplants…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/steps-to-bmt/donation-and-transplantation/ Donation and Transplantation | BMT Basics - Donation of Cells from Marrow or Blood After all levels of Confirmatory Typing (CT) have been completed, and the donor has received medical clearance based on results of physical exams, the donation takes place. Usually it is timed to occur at the precise when the recipient has completed the BMT chemotherapy and/or radiation protocol (called…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/ Finding a Donor | BMT Basics - The process of searching for an unrelated donor (URD) for a specific patient begins with research into the holdings of databases of donor HLA typings that have been collected by registries in the US and around the world. Before looking at the search process in more detail, in it helpful to know about how the…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/starting-the-search/ Starting the Search | BMT Basics - The search process begins with a preliminary scan of donor data contained in the registries of the NMDP, and often of the data for all international registries as well. This is called a preliminary search, and it can be requested by any physician, not just by a transplant center. As previously mentioned, oncologists and other…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/donor-registries-background/ Donor Registries: Background | BMT Basics - The process of searching for an unrelated donor for a specific patient begins with research into the holdings of databases of donor HLA typings that have been collected by registries in the US and around the world. In order to better understand the search process, it is helpful to understand how the donor registries developed…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/list-of-donor-registries/ List of Donor Registries | BMT Basics - US BMT Donor Registries This alphabetical listing includes registries operating in the US, the largest of which is the federally-funded NMDP.  The HLA typings of donated cord blood banked for the public National Cord Blood Inventory are part ofhe NMDP donor database. Since 2006, the NMDP blood & marrow donor registries, and the cord blood…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/how-donors-are-recruited/ How Donors Are Recruited | BMT Basics - Recruitment of BMT donors in the US is done in several different ways. The NMDP works with affiliated donor centers, which may be blood centers, hospitals, or in some cases its own branch offices, across the country. The NMDP also  works with its network of ethnic-specific recuritment groups nationally, along with its corporate recrutiment groups…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/for-mixed-heritage-patients/ For Mixed Heritage Patients | BMT Basics - Patients whose  HLA haplotypes are seriously under-represented in US and international registries are among those who face poor odds in being able to find an unrelated donor for BMT.   This situation not only decreases their potential chances of survival ,  imposes more stress for patient families beyond the usual, but can also impact the…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/finding-a-donor/grass-roots-donor-recruitment/ Grass-Roots Donor Recruitment | BMT Basics - Some patients in need of an unrelated BMT who have not had luck in finding one through the registries, may decide to get more personally involved in the donor search.  There are various ways to do so, the most common being asking families, friends, and community members to register to become BMT donors; holding donor…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/adoption-issues/ Adoption Issues | BMT Basics - Since HLA types are genetically transmitted, any one individual is most likely to find a match with a biological sibling or a person of similar ancestral genetic heritage. Many patients who were adopted or have grown up in foster care thus may face additional challenges to finding a BMT donor, related or unrelated.
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/adoption-issues/bmt-and-adoption/ BMT and Adoption | BMT Basics - The crisis that accompanies the illness necessitating a BMT, may gain an added dimension due to complex issues that underlie a child’s placement for adoption or foster care. Of course, every family and situation is different, but it is not uncommon for adoption issues to take on special significance at key times one's lifecycle, and…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/adoption-issues/domestic-adoption-and-foster-care/ Domestic Adoption and Foster Care | BMT Basics - Today many adoptive and foster families of US children may have contact with, or at least information about, their child’s birth family. The nature of family dynamics may complicate urgent queries about a child’s biological siblings and/or testing of biological parents. If the child was adopted through a state or private agency, parents can contact…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/adoption-issues/international-adoption/ International Adoption | BMT Basics - Making contact with birth families of children who have been adopted internationally by US families is more complicated, often due to barriers of geography, language and culture, and the reasons that led to the placement of the child abroad.  Globalization notwithstanding, families need to understand than the present day American culture of openness and no-holds…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/after-bmt/ After BMT | BMT Basics - After the transplant takes place, a new phase of the BMT process begins. All attention is focused on helping the patient to recover from the effects of the transplant conditioning and from the introduction of the new brand immune system from the donor. If all goes well, infections and side effects will be able to…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/after-bmt/discharge-from-bmt-center/ Discharge from BMT Center | BMT Basics - Generally, the short term survival phase is measured in terms of a 100 day period, the average time for patients to recover well enough to be discharged from the outpatient BMT center to their community  oncologist or hosptial. Since each patient is unique, the recovery time may be quite different for your child. You will…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/basics-2/after-bmt/lifelong-needs/ Lifelong Needs | BMT Basics - Recent medical advances in the BMT field mean that many more patients now survive the prodcuedre, and consequently much more attention is now starting to be paid to the needs of long term survivors. From the experiences of survivors, has come much new knowledge about special and ongoing  health and psychosocial needs unique to those…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/equity/ Ethics | BMT Basics - Whether any given individual can get a BMT when needed is a health equity issue. Access to transplant is determined both by availability of a donor cell source and the availability of resources to pay for the procedure and essential medical and non-medical care.  This section provides an overview of  the ethical issues behind problems…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/equity/leveling-the-field/ Leveling the Field | BMT Basics - For the majority of BMT patients who require unrelated donors, the odds are still unequal for all those whose genetic backgrounds are not well represented in existing donor registries. When MAVIN began its BMT work in 2001, it was quickly became apparent that mixed heritage patients were among those whose chances of finding an unrelated…
  • https://bmtbasics.wordpress.com/equity/leveling-the-field/bmt-donors-and-recipients/ BMT Donors and Recipients | BMT Basics - At present, about 75% of the more than 6 million prospective donors listed in the donor registry of the federally-funded National Marrow Donor Program ® (NMDP) are  identified as Caucasian . The other 25% is comprised of members of all groups categorized as racial minorities (the NMDP utilizes  primarily the federal racial/ethnic designations now reported…

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