A four-year-old boy with Stage 4 neuroblastoma underwent autologous bone marrow transplantation at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH).
According to doctors, this was the first paediatric case of bone marrow transplantation in a government hospital in the State.
Aruna Rajendran, Paediatric Hemato Oncologist, Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Hospital for Children, Madras Medical College, said the boy was treated with chemotherapy followed by surgery at the Paediatric Surgery department of ICH. With the disease in control, autologous bone marrow transplantation was planned.
