A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

The University of Utah Hematopoietic Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute provides comprehensive, compassionate, state-of-the-art care for patients with these types of ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham has conducted the state’s first bone marrow transplant using stem cells from a deceased donor, a rare procedure performed only a few times nationwide. By ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a form of cancer that leads to an atypically high level of lymphocytes within the bone marrow. Tests, such as a bone marrow biopsy, can determine how advanced CLL ...