Clinical trial a study of the effectiveness of a drug or treatment. CMV see cytomegalovirus. CNS central nervous system. CNS Prophylaxis is used to prevent leukaemia from accumulating around the brain. Colony stimulating factor proteins that stimulate the production and growth of certain types of blood cells.
Conditioning see preparative regimen.
Conjunctivitis eye inflammation. Consolidation therapy using the same or different drugs, but in lower doses, aims to maintain a remission by killing residual disease that may be present, but undetected in the bone marrow. Contracture shortening of muscle, skin and other soft tissue, usually in the limbs. Cryopreservation to preserve by freezing. Bone marrow harvested for an autologous BMT, for example, is cryopreserved.