GVL -
Graft-versus-leukaemia. The GVHD reaction also has positive aspects. If the patient has leukaemia or some other cancers, while the new white blood cells produced by the implanted stem cells attacks the patient, the new stem cells will often also attack the patients cancer cells that still may be present after the transplant. This was first documented in Acute leukaemia, and this phenomenon has been called Graft-versus-leukaemia effect.

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