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Peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) harvesting. Information for young people with cancer, and parents of a child or young person with cancer, having a stem cell transplant, and for stem cell donors

Peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) harvesting. Information for young people with cancer, and parents of a child or young person with cancer, having a stem cell transplant, and for stem cell donors (November 2018)

This factsheet is written to help explain what is involved when you undergo a peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) harvest. It explains what haematopoietic stem cells are, why they are collected, and what happens before, during and after the harvest.

Author(s)
Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
Place of publication
Leicester
Publisher
Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group
Date of publication
November 2018
Pages
4pp
Supplier
www.cclg.org.uk
Subject(s)
Children, Children's cancers, Autologous haematopoietic peripheral blood stem cell (PSBC) harvesting and transplantation
Format
Factsheet
Language
English
Flesch readability score
68.0
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