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Bone Marrow Transplantation: replacing diseased bone marrow with healthy bone marrow from a donor. After an appropriate donor is found, the diseased bone marrow in the patient is depleted with radiation or chemotherapy, then healthy marrow from the donor is extracted and injected intravenously into the bloodstream of the patient where it migrates to the bone marrow to begin generating new blood cells