MANGALURU: City based hospital K S Hegde Medical Academy has performed its first successful bone marrow transplantation on a 55-year-old patient suffering from Multiple Myeloma The Advanced Medical procedure Autologous Stem Cell transplantation was performed by Dr Vijith Shetty, consultant medical oncologist and his team at Leela Narayan Shetty Cancer Centre of KSHEMA, Deralakatte.Patient Jayanth (Name changed) from Belthangady , was suffering from severe backache and anaemia from past three years and was subsequently diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (Blood cancer) at KSHEMA.Multiple myeloma is a kind of blood cancer, a condition which arises from the bone marrow due to abnormal proliferation of atypical plasma cells which ultimately affects normal hematopoesis, causes renal failure and causes fractures in the bones.An autologous BMT is an advanced procedure performed to prolong survival in patients affected by multiple myeloma in both upfront and relapse setting, relapse – Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphoma.According to doctors three essential steps in performing an Autologous BMT include: first step, to mobilise stem cells from patient’s bone marrow to the peripheral blood stream & harvesting, collecting and storing the stem cells from peripheral blood. In second step, a patient undergoes high dose chemotherapy to eliminate the malignant cells. In the final step, stored stem cells of the patient are reinfused to the patient, which subsequently homes into the bone marrow and starts producing normal cells.Dr Shantaram Shetty, pro-chancellor Nitte (deemed to be university) claimed that this advanced facility was previously available only at major oncology centres in Bengaluru.

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