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To the Editor: In their review article on radiation exposure (May 16 issue),¹ Mettler and Voelz did not give adequate consideration to hematopoietic-cell transplantation as a potential treatment for persons exposed to radiation. In the event of large-scale exposure, some persons are likely to be exposed to a dose of total-body radiation (approximately 6 to 15 Gy) that would result in death from bone marrow failure without other life-threatening complications.² The only effective treatment for bone marrow failure caused by lethal doses of radiation is hematopoietic-cell transplantation.

Since the Chernobyl disaster, there have been substantial advances that make urgent hematopoietic-cell . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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