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Colorado Blood Cancer Institute using patients' stem cells to treat their autoimmune diseases

The treatment is called autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT), and Dr. Richard Nash and his team have more than 20 years of experience with it.

September 03, 2024
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"We administer a round of chemotherapy over a single day, and then we sort of follow the patients after the chemotherapy counts drop,” said Dr. Nash. “Then as counts increase, there's release of the stem cells into the peripheral blood. We collect those stem cells, and then they're frozen.”

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Published:
September 03, 2024
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Colorado Blood Cancer Institute

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