Bone Marrow Transplants
Bone marrow transplants have proven to be effective in children. Bone marrow transplants are the only known cure for SCD.
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Famous quotes containing the words bone and/or marrow:
“Sang a bone upon the shore;
“A child found all a child can lack,
Whether of pleasure or of rest,
Upon the abundance of my breast”:
A bone wave-whitened and dried in the wind.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”
—Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)