With leukaemia, you may need blood transfusions when your bone marrow is no longer working effectively either due to leukaemia crowding your bone marrow or when treatment is temporarily suppressing your bone marrow function. Erica Wood, Associate Professor; Head, Transfusion Research Unit and Lucy Fox, Clinical Research Fellow in Haematology, both of Monash University provide some history on how blood groups were discovered and why it is so important when transfusions are required: theconversation.com/explain...
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