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Brain tumor is a deadly disease. The survival rate for 5 years is 75% in primary brain tumors. It is also called brain cancer. The common treatment includes surgery- craniotomy and brain awake surgery, radiation therapy- external beam radiation, and chemotherapy. The new treatment options are immunotherapy and hyperthermia. Radiotherapy is the most effective therapy that lowers the risk of recurrence. A combination of one or two treatments can also be used to kill the cancer cells. Every now and then new treatment options are emerging in treating brain cancer or brain tumor. Immunotherapy is the latest development where a cancer vaccine is used to encourage the immune system to attack tumor cells. Resource Article: Painless Brain Tumor Treatment - Facts & Relief Even in Advanced Stages

  Many problems in the body may arise soon after the bone marrow transplant because the bone marrow wipes out by the medicine or radiation just before the transplant. Graft failure: Graft fails when the body does not accept new stem cells. The stem cells that do not go into the bone marrow and multiply like they should. Graft failure is common when the patient and donor are not well matched and when patients get stem cells that have had the T-cells removed. This may also happen to patients with lower number of stem cells  such as a single umbilical cord unit but it isn’t common. Graft failure may lead to severe bleeding and infection.