Introduction

This booklet provides information for patients and their families about blood or marrow stem cell transplantation for the treatment of leukemia lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes or other cancers of the blood and marrow.

Between 1970, when the transplant registry began tracking data, and today, the number of patients with cancers of the blood and marrow receiving treatment with stem cell transplantation has increased from hundreds to thousands of patients transplanted per year. An estimated 18,720 people in North America had autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplantation for blood cancers in 2005, the most current data available (Source: CIBMTR [Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research] Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 2, December 2007.) The procedure continues to be improved in anticipation of making it a treatment option for even more patients each year.

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