Are bone marrow transplants used to treat follicular lymphoma?

Are bone marrow transplants used to treat follicular lymphoma.

We do use bone marrow transplants in some instances to treat follicular lymphoma. I would say with the current available therapies that we have and some of the newer therapies, we use it less than we used to use it. But there are two different types of bone marrow transplant.

One is called an autologous stem cell transplant. And that's where you donate your own stem cells. So a patient would get treatment, to get their lymphoma under control. And then we would collect their own stem cells. They'd be treated, frozen. And then, they would be admitted to the hospital, get high doses of a combination of chemotherapy and then get those stem cells back.

Then there is an allogeneic stem cell transplant, and that's when somebody, donates their cells to a patient, for that type.

So there's indications for both of those types of transplants in follicular lymphoma with the availability of some of the immunotherapies and cellular therapies, Car-T that we have now, I do think we don't use them as much as we did in the past. But yes, there's still a role for those.