First successful marrow transplant in Vietnam
Posted by Bao Viet Nam on July 17, 2008
Vietnam has been successful in performing the first marrow transplant, the Central Haematology and Blood Transfusion Institute officially announced on July 15.
The transplant was operated on Nguyen Thi Lan, a 21-year-old leukemia sufferer, and the donor of blood-forming stem cell was Lan’s sister.
After two-month treatment, Lan has been discharged from the hospital in a normal health condition. Tests no longer found cancer cells and her marrow is reported to be normal.
Bach Quoc Khanh, Deputy Director of the Central Haematology and Blood Transfusion Institute, said that a new method of chemical treatment was use in the transplant to enable the patient to accept cells resistant to cancer. The new method also help reduce the risk of side-effects such as infection and bleeding which an lead to the patient’s death.
The Central Haematology and Blood Transfusion Institute currently receives nearly 300 patients every day, with 70 percent of them being sufferers of leukemia.-
