Labels:brass | bulletin board | reckoner | sky OCR: Allogeneic bone-marrow transplant A transplant that involves transferring bone marrow from one person to another The transpl lant 19 performed after high doses of chemotherapy and sometimes total body irradiation that kill the cancer Because the patient must receive bone marrow that is as closely matched as possible tc his or her own this transplant is usually performed between siblings The close match reduces the chance that the donated marrow will reject the body (See graft -versus host disease) DONE hone