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Polish clinic performs record bone marrow transplants in Europe

Xinhua, November 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

A total of 86 bone marrow transplants has been conducted in the Cape of Hope clinic in Wroclaw, southwestern Poland, during the first year of its activity in a new headquarters, it was announced Wednesday.

It is the biggest amount of such transplants in comparison to any European clinic, it has been claimed. The number also constitutes half of transplants conducted in Poland, head of the clinic Alicja Chybicka informed.

The Wroclaw Clinic of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Oncology and Haematology is situated in a new, modern building called Cape of Hope, the construction of which cost about 115 million zloty (about 30 million U.S. dollars).

The Cape of Hope clinic is equipped with 17 transplantation sites and 76 stationery beds. The next step will be opening a reserve daily oncology ward and purchase of modern magnetic resonance equipment. Endit