A stem cell transplant is often the best option to treat blood cancers, such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndrome, as well as bone marrow failure syndromes like aplastic anemia.

To understand the different types of stem cell transplants and how they work, we spoke with Amin Alousi, M.D. Here’s what he had to say.

Stem cells are the “seeds” that...

Leukemia treatments have been constantly improving from the days when patients had to come to the hospital or clinic for intravenous doses of chemotherapy that caused unwanted side effects. Now, leukemia treatment often can be as convenient as a medication taken at home — a pill (or pills) with drugs highly customized to the person’s type of leukemia and even the genetic mutations present within those individual’s cancer cells.