Learning More about Your Disease

If you are diagnosed with leukemia, a bone marrow or cord blood transplant (also called a BMT) may be a treatment option for you. A transplant may also be a treatment option for certain immune system and genetic disorders. The diseases listed below are those that may be treated by a bone marrow or cord blood transplant. The list includes diagnoses for which transplant is a standard treatment as well as diagnoses for which the role of transplant is a newer option. To learn more about your disease here or through disease-specific organizations, see the links below.

Diseases treatable

Leukemias and lymphomas, including: 

• Acute myelogenous leukemia
• Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
• Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
• Hodgkin's lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

• Severe aplastic anemia
• Fanconi anemia
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Amegakaryocytosis / congenital thrombocytopenia

SCID and other inherited immune system disorders, including: 

• Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID, all sub-types)
• Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

Hemoglobinopathies, including: 

• Beta thalassemia major
• Sickle cell disease

Hurler's syndrome and other inherited metabolic disorders, including: 

• Hurler's syndrome (MPS-IH)
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Metachromatic leukodystrophy

Myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative disorders, including: 

• Refractory anemia (all types)
• Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
• Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia (myelofibrosis)

Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and other histiocytic disorders

Other malignancies

Childhood cancers