Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
transplantation conditioning
trans·plan·ta·tion con·di·tion·ing
Subclass of:
Therapeutic immunosuppression
Definitions related to transplantation conditioning:
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(conditioning regimen) The treatments used to prepare a patient for stem cell transplantation (a procedure in which a person receives blood stem cells, which make any type of blood cell). A conditioning regimen may include chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy, and radiation to the entire body. It helps make room in the patient's bone marrow for new blood stem cells to grow, helps prevent the patient's body from rejecting the transplanted cells, and helps kill any cancer cells that are in the body.NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(transplant conditioning) Administration of high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy, as well as immunosuppressive therapy, to a transplant recipient prior to a bone marrow or hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Conditioning destroys the patient's abnormal blood cells or cancer, as well as slows the patient's immune response against the donor bone marrow (graft rejection).NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Preparative treatment of transplant recipient with various conditioning regimens including radiation, immune sera, chemotherapy, and/or immunosuppressive agents, prior to transplantation. Transplantation conditioning is very common before bone marrow transplantation.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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