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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Clonal Hematopoiesis in Donors May Improve Bone Marrow Transplant Outcome

By SPC News Staff

Clonal hematopoiesis (CH), a condition in which mutations associated with blood cancers are found in the blood of healthy people, is common with aging. When looking for appropriate stem cell/bone marrow donors, clinicians tend to stay away from older donors with CH because of concerns about passing potentially premalignant stem cells to recipients.

However, a new study, co-authored by researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore,