Girl, 8, first UK transplant patient not to need life-long drugs in breakthrough

Aditi Shankar will not need to take drugs for life in pioneering transplant treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital

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Amazing but needing a bone marrow transplant from the same person who donated the organ makes this unlikely to become the norm. Its only stem cells they need so maybe if we can improve the stem cell reversion thing.
- I find the process amazing, more so if it can be cascaded across many donors.
- It could do.. apparently live donors are about 30% of transplants now. In those cases it's not a huge extra step to get some bone marrow.
  
  I heard bone marrow is really aweful and requires a lot of recovery but maybe that is just the recieving end or something.
Any haematologists / immunologoists here? Does she run the risk of GVHD after this?

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