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Bangalore, Apr 22 : City-based Narayana Health City (NHC) with over 300 successful Bone Marrow Transplants to its credit, today show cased the efficacy of this treatment modality with over 80 per cent success rate for curing cancerous and genetic blood diseases.

The two types of diseases which can be cured by bone marrow transplant are Leukemia, Severe Aplastic Anemia, Thassemia and Immune Deficiency Disorders.

Bone marrow transplant is a highly advanced procedure that involves transfusion of bone marrow stem cells from a healthy donor to a patient.

Speaking to reporters here, Dr Sharat Damodar, HoD and Senior Consultant Hematologist, Bone marrow transplant unit at NHC said the nature of blood diseases/disorders is either genetic in nature or acquired due to exposure to several risk factors including hazardous environment and consumption of adulterated food.

"Bone marrow transplants are now producing high success rates as it is curative in nature and offers hope to patients of a life beyond painful and fatal diseases," he said.

Dr Damodar, however, regretted that most of bone transplants are now done using bone marrow stem cells from blood relatives of the patients. "In India it is a challenge to find donors and we should consider it as our social responsibility to volunteer for donating healthy bone marrow and help patients in need," he added.

He said the government had recently opened donor registry DATRI and 50,000 people had enrolled into it.

"Compared to a population of 126 crore, we have just 50,000 donors. This is in comparison to an European country like Germany you can find millions of them," he added.

Dr Damodar and his team of experts also presented and shared the cases of patients who have been in remission for five years and leading a disease free life post bone marrow transplantation.

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NHC showcase bone marrow transplant to cure blood disorders