Bone marrow transplant in Iran

Bone marrow transplant is one of the services of Cancerfax, which is provided by the best surgeons, along with accommodation, a translator, a companion nurse, and a city tour at an affordable price in Iran.

Leukemia is usually thought of as a children’s condition, but it affects more adults. It’s more common in men than women and more common in whites. There’s nothing you can do to prevent leukemia. It’s a cancer of your blood cells caused by a rise in the number of white blood cells in your body. They crowd out the red blood cells and platelets your body needs to be healthy. All those extra white blood cells don’t work right, and that causes problems.

Bone marrow transplantation replaces stem cells. It is used when stem cells or bone marrow have been damaged or destroyed by diseases, including some types of cancer and leukemia, or by high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

There are two main types of BMT: autologous and allogeneic bone marrow transplants. In autologous, stem cells are taken from your child, but in allogeneic, the donor is another person. Other transplantation methods, such as umbilical cord blood, are also available, in which stem cells are taken from an umbilical cord right after a baby’s birth. These stem cells grow into mature blood cells more quickly and effectively than stem cells from the bone marrow of another child or adult. The stem cells are tested, typed, counted, and frozen in the transplantation bank until they are needed for a transplant.

Over the last decade, medicine has seen great advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Many people with the disease are living longer, and many are cured. That’s thanks to cancer research and people who are willing to make sacrifices. Sacrifices such as donating bone marrow.

Rehabilitation time for a patient to return to normal status varies depending on the patient’s condition and the transplant type, but it usually lasts about 2 to 6 weeks. During this period, you have to stay in the hospital or visit the transplant center daily for at least a few weeks.

• Infections

• Low levels of platelets (thrombocytopenia) and red blood cells (anemia)

• Pain

• Diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting

• Breathing problems

• Organ damage: Short-term (temporary) liver and heart damage

• Graft failure

• Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)

Your doctor will want to make sure your body is strong enough to undergo a bone marrow transplant. The tests needed to be done could be continued over several days, including:

• Blood tests to see how well your liver and kidneys are working and to make sure you don’t have an infectious disease

• Chest X-rays to look for signs of lung disease or infection

• Electrocardiogram (EKG) to check your heart’s rhythm

• Echocardiogram (Echo) to look for problems in your heart and the blood vessels around it

• CT scan to see how healthy your organs are

• Biopsy to help your doctor predict if your cancer is likely to come back after the transplant.

Putting a catheter (a long, thin tube) into a large vein in your neck or chest that will stay there throughout your transplant. This will make it easier to give you medicine. You also might get new healthy bone marrow cells through it.

Chemotherapy and Radiation: Before the transplant, you’ll need to do chemotherapy and possibly radiation to kill cancer cells in your body and make room for new stem cells. They also slow down your immune system, so your body’s more likely to accept the transplant.

Even though performing bone marrow transplants in Iran is cost-effective, proceeding with treatment with expert specialists and professional medical care teams, along with developed technology, improves the rank of Iran's ranking to the third country for doing BMT among all other countries with the same technology in the world. There is a full and developed bone marrow and stem cell transplant bank in Iran. Also, blood banks and other organ transplantation are fully active in our country. By considering the cost of accommodation and food during rehabilitation, which is much lower than in Asian and European countries, Iran is an ideal country for doing bone marrow transplants.

Currently, a few countries, such as India, Mexico, the USA, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Germany, and Iran, have the specialty and technology to perform bone marrow transplantation. Generally, a stem cell transplant or BMT is very expensive in the USA and European countries. For example, it costs more than $300,000 in Europe. While the cost of a bone marrow transplant in Iran is estimated at $60,000, which is significantly lower than even in other Asian countries, such as India, which is predicted to be more than $83,000.

If you would like the best surgeons in Iran’s first-class hospitals to perform your surgery and, at the same time, be comfortable and stress-free during your treatment and stay in Iran at a reasonable cost, like your home, get in touch with Cancerfax Consultants.