「髓」緣之情 延續生命 Bone Marrow Transplants Save Lives
SEP. 13,2024 / Analytical Editors
Many patients with certain types of cancers suffer from damage to their blood cells due to the cancer itself or treatments like chemotherapy. To help rebuild healthy blood cells, patients often receive bone marrow transplants by using either pluripotent or hematopoietic stem cells.
A bone marrow or stem cell transplant can speed up recovery and boost healthy blood cell production. There are primarily two types of bone marrow transplants: autologous and allogeneic. The former involves using the patient's own stem cells, while the latter uses stem cells from a matching donor, usually a relative with a compatible human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type. If someone doesn't have a close relative with a matching type, there are registries for doctors to seek suitable donors.
某些癌症的許多患者都因癌症本身或像是化療等療法而致使血球遭受破壞。為了幫助重建健康的血球,患者往往會接受骨髓移植,而骨髓移植是使用多功能幹細胞或是造血幹細胞。
骨髓移植(或稱幹細胞移植)能夠加速復原,並促進健康血球的生長。主要有兩種骨髓移植:自體移植和異體移植。前者涉及使用患者自身的幹細胞,後者則使用配對成功之捐贈者的幹細胞,捐贈者通常是人類白血球抗原(HLA)類型相符的親戚。如果沒有相符類型的近親,那麼還有登錄名冊可供醫生搜尋適合的捐贈者。
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- suffer from... 遭受...之苦;罹患...(疾病)
- speed up... / speed... up 加快...(速度)
- recovery n. 康復,恢復
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