What is Bone Marrow Transplant in India?

Bone marrow transplant in India is a procedure in which the medical specialists called hematologist or oncologist does replace your damaged blood stem cells with new healthy blood stem cells. This procedure can be done to replace stem cells either from your’s own or from the donor.

When bone marrow damaged by your illness, infections or either from the chemotherapies, etc, it stopped producing healthy stem cells into your body which can affect your immune system. So, when your hematologist replaces your damaged stem cells with healthy ones, which further transplanted in the bone marrow. Bone marrow transplant leads to making new blood cells and helps in the development in the new bone marrow. The new developed bone marrow starts producing healthy red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells again into the body.

Can You Live Without Bone Marrow? 

Bone marrow is a soft and spongy tissue which presents inside of your bone. It contains cells which helps in producing blood stem cells which further produces blood cells. Bone marrow nearly produce all kinds of blood components in our body, includes producing millions of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

These Red blood cells helps in carrying oxygen to tissues in your body, White blood cells helps to fight diseases and infections, strenghtening to the immune system and Platelets helps in blood clotting which ultimately helps in stop bleeding in the body. 

These are some of the most important functions a bone marrow play in our body, by the blood cells they produce. If these stopped producing healthy, it can prone to some of the most disastrous and life-threatening issues and infections in the body.

Bone marrow is made of:
Bone marrow is made up of stem cells. These stem cells made two types of bone marrow: Red bone marrow and Yellow bone marrow.
Red bone marrow is responsible of producing blood stem cells and Platelets whereas Yellow bone marrow is responsible of producing fat and stem cells which then produce bone and cartilage in the body.

Who Needs Bone Marrow Transplant in India?

Bone marrow transplant in India is used to treat many kinds of diseases in your body. It is helps to regain the healthy bone marrow, either from your own body or from the donor.
These are the some of the important reasons for the bone marrow transplant in India:

• Those Who Have Blood Cancer
• Leukemia: It is type of blood cancer. In this, bone marrow producing abnormal white blood cells in the body.
• Lymphoma: It is also a type of blood cancer, the bone marrow starts producing abnormal lymphocytes(a type of white blood cell) and multiply in large numbers. It is disease fighting cell.
• Multiple Myeloma: It is also a type of blood cancer, in which bone marrow starts producing abnormal plasma cell(a type of white blood cell). 
• Those Who Have Bone Marrow Failure Disorders
• Aplastic Anemia: It is a type of blood disorder which is very rare but serious issue in which the bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells.
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS): It is a type of blood disorder. A person with this disorder does not have healthy blood cells.
• Those have Genetic Blood Disorders

A person with genetic blood disorder such as Thalassemia, Sickle cell disease, Fanconi Anemia, etc. These genetic disorders need bone marrow transplant treatment which is however the only option to cure such disorders.

• Those Who Have Immune System Disorder

A person with autoimmune disorder or with immunodeficiency disorder are required bone marrow transplant in order for the treatment. In this disorder, person’s immune system is affected and starts functioning abnormally. In this, immune cells in the body is attacking healthy stem cells.

• Those Who Need High Chemotherapy for Cancer Treatment

Some cancers in which cancer arise in blood cells in the bone marrow while some cancers in which the bone marrow is getting attacked. All these cancer forms need bone marrow transplant treatment, which is the only solution. This transplant is also required when cancer treatment such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy is required in order to treat cancer. These chemotherapy or radiation therapy damages the bone marrow so such patient’s also require bone marrow transplant in order to produce healthy blood stem cells.

1. Some other issues which needs bone marrow transplant treatment such as:
   • Myelofibrosis
   • Myeloproliferative disorders
   • Germ cell tumors
   • Sarcoma
   • Amyloidosis
   • Myeloproliferative neoplasm

Types of Bone Marrow Transplant in India

There are mainly two bone marrow transplant in India, which are:

• Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant

In this type of transplant, a patient’s own healthy blood stem cells is collected, treated and stored for later use after the chemotherapy treatment. After chemotherapy, stem cells are then transplante into the patient’s bloodstream.

• Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant

In this type of transplant, healthy stem cells is collected, treated and stored for later use, from a donor which is either the immediate family of the patient or from a unrelated donor. After the chemotherapy, it is then transplanted in the patient’s bloodstream.

However, there is a another alternative bone marrow transplant method.
Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant: This type is very similar to Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplant. In this, the bone marrow is collected from a new born child’s umbilical cord blood. It is collected, stored and then ready to transplanted into the patient’s bloodstream. It is also a proved successful transplant method.

Bone Marrow Transplant Process in India

Bone marrow transplant is a series of process. Here’s the step by step guide of transplant procedure:

• Pre-transplant preparations

In this, your doctor will do various tests includes blood tests, X-rays and CT scans and overall health checkup in order to check your physical conditions. You need to physically fit for the transplant procedure.
A special tube called catheter, also known as central line. The central line then inserts into a vein into your chest. This central line is used during the whole procedure in order to transplant the blood stem cells, medicines and blood products.

• Collecting Bone Marrow Samples

These can be done either through the Autologous or Allogeneic method. Your doctor will recommend which one is best for your condition. This procedure of collecting blood samples is often called as Apheresis.

Before starting apheresis, you or your donor will be given some injections in order to stimulate the stem cells productions. After some days, these stem cells are being collected and stored for future coming infusion process.

• The Conditioning Process

The conditioning process is the process in which the diseased cancer cells or other types will be killed through the chemotherapy or radiation procedures. It depends on your conditions or the issues which require either or both treatments. 

This high-dose chemotherapy or radiation treatment will weaken your immune system to stop them from attacking the transplanted cells.

• The Infusion & Engraftment Process

It is a simple and painless process. In this usually, your stored stem cells sample will be transplanted through the central line into your bloodstream. 

The healthy stem cells travel to the bone marrow through blood and then starts producing more healthy stem cells, this process is called engraftment. This usually takes a week-long for the normal range of stem cells. 

• Recovery, Monitoring & Follow-ups

These are very critical and very important steps after the transplant procedure. Regular monitoring during your hospital stay will be done to check the blood counts in your body. 

Certain medications will be advised in order to avoid any potential complications, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) will be important advised to you in the case of donor bone marrow.

Regular long-term follow-up monitoring after hospital discharge will be done to check the blood counts and reducing the possible complications through medications.

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Success Rate of Bone Marrow Transplant in India

In India, Bone marrow transplant in India has all the advanced medical equipments or devices, team of transplants experts, and ultra-modern infrastructures. In the recent passed decade, India has emerged as one of the top destinations in the world for bone marrow transplant with high success rates.

In the recent study, India has come up the success rates lies in the range of 70% to 90%. However, the success rates depends on many factors, these are below:

1. Type of bone marrow transplant opted like Autologous has higher success rates as compared to Allogeneic.
2. Patient’s disease, age & health conditions as non- cancerous disease have higher success rates than cancerous disease. Patient’s age and health matters alot in achieving higher success rates.
3. Donor’s bone marrow match as perfect match donor have higher success rates than unrelated donors.
4. Risks & complications affects success as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) may arise in case of donor transplant which ultimately leads to failure of the transplant. However, your doctor would medicate you in order to avoid this.

Cost of Bone Marrow Transplant in India

The cost of Bone marrow transplant in India is in ranges between the ₹14 lakhs to ₹40 lakhs. This cost differs from the hospital to hospital and different city to city in India for the treatment. There are many factors which amount to the overall cost of the bone marrow treatment.

• Factors affecting the costs:

These are the important factors which affects the overall cost of bone marrow transplant in India.

• Type of Transplant – Autologous Transplant & Allogeneic Transplant
• Hospital Fee and its Location
• Patients’s age and their medical condition & Complications
• Bone marrow specialist’s fee
• Lab tests, monitoring, and Examinations cost

Conclusion