Written Question · S2W-02756 · Session 2
How many leukaemia patients, and those with other blood-related diseases, there are in Scotland who require blood stem cell or bone marrow …
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many leukaemia patients, and those with other blood-related diseases, there are in Scotland who require blood stem cell or bone marrow transplants.
The answer
In 2002, 50 patients with a principaldiagnosis of leukaemia or Hodgkin’s disease or non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma had bone marrowtransplants.
In the same year there were 254peripheral blood stem cell transplants for people with a principal diagnosis ofleukaemia or multiple myeloma or other malignant plasma cell neoplasms.
In the same year there were 254peripheral blood stem cell transplants for people with a principal diagnosis ofleukaemia or multiple myeloma or other malignant plasma cell neoplasms.
In the Official Report
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