Hi About 2 weeks ago  I wrote a mail to see if you can refer me any hospital for the leukema. Thanks for your attention. My friend finally got the English name for for her sister’’s diease---”Aplastic Anemia”  She is actually in Thailand. She is Thai. For these kind of diease Can they fly to TPE for bone marrow operation or it’’s impossible and not necessary If I want to find more information about this diease what department or subject should I look forIn Chinese and English Thanks for your help
Dear Vivien Aplastic anemia is called ”再生不良性貧血” in Mandarin. It is not a malignant disease but severe form aplastic anemia is life-threatening. The best treatment is hematologic stem cell transplantation either bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells as the source. A sibling donor is the best choice. If there is no suitable sibling donor the doctors have to search for a donor in the bone marrow donor data base for the patient. A suitable donor means the human leukocyte antigen HLA typing of the patient and the donor is the same. If a suitable donor can not be found immune suppressive therapy with cyclosporin and anti-thymocyte globulin is the second choice. My suggestion is that the patient and her siblings receive HLA typing first. If a suitable donor is found the patient surely could fly to Taiwan for stem cell transplantation. But the procedure and medical care would be very very expensive if the patient has not joined our general health insurance in Taiwan. I am willing to introduce you a bone marrow transplant specialist in case the patient decides to be treated here. Please bring my best regards for her. sincerely your Frank Fan