Bone marrow transplant could reverse sickle cell in adults

Sickle cell disease in adults might be treatable with a bone marrow transplant, researchers report July 1 in JAMA.

Hundreds of children with sickle cell disease had previously been treated and most cured with the procedure, which requires that their defective bone marrow be largely wiped out by radiation and chemotherapy and then replaced by a closely matched marrow transplant.