PUNE: Jupiter Hospital in Baner launched a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Centre recently to provide advanced medical treatment for common disorders like leukaemia, myeloma and lymphoma. 

Bone Marrow Transplant is a medical procedure to replace damaged or destroyed bone marrow with healthy bone marrow stem cells. It may be autologous, that is, the patient’s stem cells are used or allogeneic, in which the stem cells come from a donor, or syngeneic, the stem cells come from an identical twin. 

Announcing the launch of the Centre, Dr Rajendra Patankar, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jupiter Hospital, said that the Centre would now successfully treat the patients suffering from life-threatening diseases like leukemia and others. 

“Jupiter Hospital offers best-in-class BMT facilities with well-equipped haematology lab, transfusion medicine, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching and a highly experienced team to perform this advanced procedure,” said Dr Patankar. 

The new BMT Centre has been built per the established protocols for BMT centre. 

“Treatment for cancer has improved by great leaps and this gives hope to many patients to return to their normal lifestyles and we are trying to help these patients by providing them with the best healthcare delivery. We offer our BMT facility to eligible patients of all ages,” added Dr Patankar. 

Dr Sweta Lunkad, senior hematologist with Avinash Cancer Clinic, Pune, and Head of Jupiter BMT Centre said that Hematopoietic Stem Cell is sourced from Bone Marrow (BM), Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) and Placental Umbilical cord Blood (P-UCB). 

“We are equipped to perform all major types of bone marrow transplants at this centre. It is estimated that we have now over 10 million donors at Matched Unrelated-BMT bank or Registry,” said Dr Lunkad.