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A

team of Israeli and Italian
researchers has developed a
technique that expands the
donor pool for leukemia
patients needing bone marrow trans-
plants.
The method, developed by scientists
at the Weizmann Institute of Science in
Israel and Perugia University in Italy for
obtaining and treating bone marrow,
eliminates the need to find a close
donor-recipient match.
Leukemia — a group of cancer-like j
diseases of the blood cells affecting
bone marrow and blood-forming tis-
sues and organs — is generally treated
with chemical and radiation therapies.
Bone marrow transplantation. a
painful procedure with a limited sur-
vival rate, is considered a last resort
for terminal cases.
Until now, patients eligible for the
radical therapy required a donor
whose immune system matched
theirs for six genetic markers — three
from the father and three from the
mother — to avoid rejection and
complications.
These restrictions meant that
patients had to find matching donors ,—
among their siblings or among the gen=
eral population, which is even rarer.
Global registries have increased the
odds of finding a match, but Jews and
members of some other ethnic groups
often have a difficult time finding suit-
able matches among the databases' mil-
lions of names.
Since most patients have relatives
who do not match on all six of the
markers but who can serve as bone
marrow donors using the new tech-
nique, "advances in this area will
greatly increase the availability of
transplants as curative therapy," pro-
fessors Yair Reisner of the Weizmann
Institute and Massimo Martelli of
Perugia University concluded in the
Oct. 22 issue of the New England

ine.
Journal of Medic

Asa result of their_ work, patients
can receive bone marrow transplants
from donors matched along only three
i111111 Ll nological markers, a partial matc l
shared by parents and children.
The new technique is already being
implemented in hospitals in Israel, the
United States, Germany and Austria.