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Originally Posted by bluej
You mentioned your husband is waiting for a cord transplant. Do you mind sharing what you mean by that? The transplant I am having is called a stem cell transpant. Wonder if there is a difference?
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Cord blood transplants use the cells from umbilical cord blood. More often, patients get their transplant cells from bone marrow or circulating blood (their own or from a donor). When the cells come from circulating blood, they call it a "peripheral blood stem cell" (PBSC) transplant.
The principle is the same in each case, but the method of donation is different.