Study: Stem Cell Transplantation Network to increase cancer risk

A preliminary study shows that, due to diseases such as leukemia and received a stem cell transplant patients face the risk of suffering from other types of cancer, especially when the transplanted stem cells from the women when. According to "New Scientist" magazine reported online edition on the 27th, British Columbia, Canada's cancer research agency scientists analyzed the past 20 years, 900 receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (also known as bone marrow transplant) in patients with medical records, the vast majority for leukemia Patients. The results showed that these patients, 28 were in the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation 10 years and suffering from other cancers, such as skin cancer, lung cancer or breast cancer. To exclude error factors, the researchers found, the other to accept the hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients after transplantation in the 10 suffering from other types of cancer risk was 2.3 percent, nearly twice the normal crowd. Analysis showed that women accept the donation of stem cell transplantation in patients 10 years after the transplant with a higher risk of other cancers, 4.6 percent, while men accept donations of stem cell transplantation in patients suffering from other types of cancer risk of only 1.8 %, Less than half of the former. However, the researchers said the findings of this study is a preliminary study did not consider whether patients with smoking and other factors.