Like if you have sickle cell or blood cancer or things can you not just like use a dialysis machine to take out your sick blood and do new clean blood?
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Technically we can do that
Bone Marrow transplants effective replace your blood by replacing the cells that produce new blood. This is used for severe cases of Leukemia for example.
But the process is risky and requires radiation therapy to kill off your existing bone marrow.
Patients are left with a destroyed immune system and long term problems like being on anti-rejection drugs, and the survival rate is typically only 25-50%
You also need to find a compatible donor which is difficult
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