2001 Edition

Medical Professionals' Guide to Unrelated Stem Cell Transplantation

The National Marrow Donor Program^® (NMDP) has published the third edition of the A Medical Professionals' Guide to Unrelated Donor Stem Cell Transplantation. It is easier to use and provides medical professionals with everything they need to know to run a preliminary search of the NMDP's Registry of potential marrow and blood stem cell donors or umbilical cord blood units.

• Search Process Overview
• Preliminary Search Request Form
• Interpretation Guidelines

"The unrelated donor search process can be prolonged, so it is critical for medical professionals to understand it and to initiate a search of the NMDP's Registry early in the course of disease," says Dr. Dennis Confer, chief medical officer for the NMDP.

New to the 2001 Medical Professionals' Guide are:

• Separate pediatric outcomes of NMDP-facilitated transplants for acute lymphocytic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia and other rare diseases.
• New data on the likelihood of finding a perfectly matched donor.

Other information:

• How to Make A Referral
• Tissue Typing Methods
• Diseases Treatable by Stem Cell Transplantation
• Transplant Outcome Data for Adults.
• Toll-free phone number to answer questions.