Gujarat kid beats thalassemia
Times Of India Pune:2009 Nov 23
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Gujarat kid beats thalassemia
Ahmedabad: Exactly 50 days ago, Harshil Nanda was a severely ill thalassemic patient with B positive blood group. Today, he is a healthy infant with A positive blood group and a confirmed evidence of how stem cell transplant can cure thalassemia.
The change in his blood group is in fact proof that Harshil’s procedure, the country’s second stem cell transplant from umbilical cord blood of a stranger child received from a private bank, has worked.
Harshil’s rapid recovery has cheered stem cell transplant surgeons at Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI) where the first such transplant was performed nearly a year ago. “This means that unrelated umbilical stem cell transplant can be termed as an established treatment,” said director of bone marrow transplant department at GCRI Dr Sandip A Shah. TNN
The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute 
