You are caring for a patient with a secondary immunodeficiency disease. The patient states "the doctor says I will be cured after I get that treatment tomorrow." You know that the treatment your patient is referring to is what?
A) Treatment with GM-CSF
B) Treatment with HSCT
C) Treatment with G-CSF
D) Treatment with SCID
Ans: B
Feedback: Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), another form of cell therapy, has proven to be a successful curative modality. Treatment with GM-CSF or G-CSF is not curative. SCID is a disease, not a treatment.
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