Hi Chirley,
Have you asked about the option to get cord blood?
"The advantages of cord blood transplant include the fact that it is readily available, carries less risk of transmission of blood-borne infections, and is transplantable across HLA barriers with diminished risk of GVHD compared to similarly mismatched stem cells from peripheral blood or bone marrow.
A major limitation is the relatively small volume obtained from cord blood collections, which makes using this approach difficult for transplantation in adults as the small volume results in delayed engraftment and increased risk of infections and mortality. The median time to neutrophil recovery after cord blood transplantation is 4 weeks, in contrast to 8-12 days after peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation. To overcome this,
pooled or sequential cord blood transplantation is practiced at some centers and has shown encouraging results; surprisingly, by day 100 after transplantation, cells from one cord blood have predominated, as documented by chimerism analysis."
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/208954-overview
Kind regards
Birgitta-A