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Leukemia can be a terrifying diagnosis for the more than 60,000 U.S. patients who are told they've this blood cancer every year. For patients with For patients with certain kinds of leukemia, the best chance they have for a cure is to receive a massive dose of radiation and chemotherapy that kills their hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), the cells responsible for making new blood, and then acquire new HSCs from a healthy donor. Patients have to go through HSC transplants every day to within the protected confines of a clinic gauge successful engraftment, searching for the presence of immune cells called neutrophils, explains Dr. Rajasundaram, Best Surgical Oncologist Surgeon at Global Hospital Chennai, India. As you head into week 3 post-transplant and a patient's cell counts remain at ...

Leukemia can be a terrifying diagnosis for the more than 60,000 U.S. patients who are told they've this blood cancer every year. For patients with For patients with certain kinds of leukemia, the best chance they have for a cure is to receive a massive dose of radiation and chemotherapy that kills their hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), the cells responsible for making new blood, and then acquire new HSCs from a healthy donor. Patients have to go through HSC transplants every day to within the protected confines of a clinic gauge successful engraftment, searching for the presence of immune cells called neutrophils, explains Dr. Rajasundaram, Best Surgical Oncologist Surgeon at Global Hospital Chennai, India. As you head into week 3 post-transplant and a patient's cell counts remain at...