Show Frozen Bon t Marrow Marnow Aids In Radiation Successful preservation of living liv ing lag bone marrow cells celts In a froze frozeen en n state for tor saving life Use In n persons exposed td to Ie radiation was by Veterans Admin The accomplishment will for the first time make It possible for hospitals to to store bone marrow for tor at least a year and perhaps indefinitely Intravenous injection of the stored marrow has pr produced dramatic dramatic dra matic improvement in low tow blood counts of cancer patients fol fol- following radiation therapy is the tile could be equally useful for persons persons per per- sons exposed to radiation injury in nuclear accidents With the use of the injection of stored marrow cancer patients patients' can be treated much more Intensively with radiation than has been thought advisable in the past The marrow stored and admInIstered administered ad ads ministered to the cancer patient I f following radiation the patient patients own Because of or the Immune reaction which each hue bu hueman hu human man being develops against the celts cells and tissues of others doctors doctors doc doe tors have not been able to transplant trans trans' transplant plant h healthy althy bone marrow cells from one p person to another except except except ex ex- iri In Identical twins Bone Done marrow was taken from I four cancer patients and frozen slowly After Arter radiation therapy I when the patients patient's blood showed c y u 1 g ga a a dangerously low level of vital elements because of Injury to the bone marrow the preserved marrow was brought back to normal tem temperature and Injected No adverse reactions to the Injections In In- were noted Is of new bone marrow cells was noted within weeks after af at ter the injections and blood counts returned to nearly normal normal normal nor nor- I. I mal within a month to six weeks |