Edited by Stephen J. Forman, Karl G. Blume, and E. Donnall Thomas. 942 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Science, 1994. $225. ISBN 0-86542-253-2.
Anyone bold enough to predict 50 years ago that by the comingturn of the century a substantial proportion of hematologicdiseases, and some nonhematologic diseases, would be treatedsuccessfully by clinicians collecting marrow cells from oneperson and transfusing them into another — admittedlywith sophisticated ancillary maneuvers to prepare the patientand to continue support after he or she receives this "hematopoieticstem-cell transplant" — would have encountered some incredulity,if not ridicule. But this, of course, is precisely what hashappened in the past 40 years. Much of this remarkable progressis documented in encyclopedic detail in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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