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Stem Cell Transplant for Cancer
Stem cell transplant (SCT) is used as a treatment in for several kinds of cancer, including: Multiple Myeloma, Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs), Hodgkin Lymphoma, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML). In a stem cell transplant (SCT), patients get an infusion of healthy blood-forming cells (stem cells). The healthy stem cells may come from the blood of the patient, from a donor, or from the umbilical cord blood of a newborn baby. (When the stem cells come from the bone marrow of the donor, it is called a bone marrow transplant. But stem cell transplants are now much more common than bone marrow transplants.)