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...Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight radiation specialists, including one from the U.S. and another from the Soviet Union. Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination...
...life-threatening microbes. Groopman believes GM-CSF could one day be used to treat a variety of diseases. "This is the first time that anyone has been able to regulate the white- blood-cell count in man," he says. "There are implications for cancer patients and people with bone-marrow disorders...
...treatment the doctors used, the patient is first given chemotherapy, in order to lessen the number of the tumor cells. Next, the doctors removed one-fifth of the patient's bone marrow through needles...
...laboratory, the doctors treated the marrow with B-1, an antibody that kills the tumor cells. The doctors then froze the marrow at -196 degrees Celsius, enabling it to live for an indefinite amount of time...
They then treated the patients with intense chemotherapy, and then gave them high levels of irradiation, to ensure that the cancerous bone marrow would not return. Afterwards, the treated marrow was thawed and given back to the patients intravenously, Nadler said...