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Trends and outcomes-first 100 bone marrow transplants at a Tertiary Care Center in Islamabad, Pakistan

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Hematologic Malignancies arise in the hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells in the bone marrow or Lymph nodes which result in immature blood cells. The incidence of hematological malignancies is on the rise. Over 8% of all new diagnosed cancer patients in Europe in 2005 were found to have Leukemia, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and myeloma [1]. In 2007 an estimated 135,000 new cases of hematologic malignancies were reported in the US [2].

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  1. Shifa College of Medicine, Shifa Tameer-E-Millat University, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Fahad Mushtaq & Umer Farooq

  2. Shifa International Hospital (SIH), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Kamran Rashid, Ayesha Junaid, Tahir Aziz, Yasir Iqbal, Shawana Kamran, Waseem Sajjad & M. Ayaz Mir

  3. Shifa Clinical Research Center (SCRC), Islamabad, Pakistan

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Mushtaq, F., Farooq, U., Rashid, K. et al. Trends and outcomes-first 100 bone marrow transplants at a Tertiary Care Center in Islamabad, Pakistan. Bone Marrow Transplant 53, 1228–1230 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41409-018-0210-9

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