Dhaka, Sept. 23 -- Evercare Hospital has become the first in Bangladesh to perform all kinds of Bone Marrow Transplants (BMT).

The hospital is conducting the BMT transplant using cutting-edge facilities and expert medical staff to provide BMT to patients at an affordable cost.

Officials of the hospital said that Bone Marrow Transplants consist of two types - autologous and allogeneic.

High doses of chemotherapy or radiotherapy or combined radio-chemotherapy are used to eradicate the residual malignancy and to create a space in the bone marrow for the donor stem cells to settle.

These donor cells grow into the patient's body and give them a new life. Generally myeloid cancers need only chemotherapy while lymphoid cancers need radio-che...