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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

THOMAS, Edward Donnall (1920 – 2012)

1920 – 2012

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1957

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Intravenous infusion of bone marrow in patients receiving radiation and chemotherapy.

THOMAS, Edward Donnall (1920 – 2012) LOCHTE, Harry L. Jr. LU, Wan Ching & et al.

Thomas and colleagues reported the first bone marrow transplants. They described the treatment of six patients with cancers and/leukemia and one patient with multiple myeloma. Three of the patients died, two responded…