The disappearance of cancer cells following treatment. Also the period during which this reduction or disappearance of symptoms occur. A malignant solid tumor most frequently found in muscle or bone. SCID Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease . Congenital defect of the immune system leading to frequent life threatening infection.
Marrow transplantation is the current treatment of choice.
Most patients have an early onset of SCID detected due to infection, usually by 3 months of age. Those cells capable of producing all the components of blood and marrow. Thalassemia A group of chronic, inherited anemias. Particularly common in persons of Mediterranean, African and Southeast Asian ancestry. Tumor Any abnormal mass resulting from the excessive multiplication of cells.