This multidisciplinary team of doctors determines the optimal treatment plan for the disease. Click here for information about outpatient transplantation in our new IPOP unit . Most treatment for CML is performed as an outpatient. The nursing staff is highly trained in the care of BMT patients and in critical care. The unit is capable of providing conventional and intensive care.
All rooms are private with special air-filtering to decrease the risk of infections.
Some patients undergoing BMT now receive their transplants as outpatients in our new IPOP unit. While allogeneic BMT represents the only known curative therapy for CML, this option is not available for the majority of patients, primarily because of the lack of a suitable donor. GM-CSF causes CML stem cells to mature into normal cells, whereupon they appear to die. Thus, when bone marrow samples from patients with CML are incubated with CML, the CML stem cells die off, leaving mostly normal stem cells. Patients marrows are harvested, incubated with GM-CSF in flasks, before freezing.