Myeloablative therapy is carried out in bone marrow transplantation in order to _____. (Select all that apply.)

a. prevent graft-versus-host disease
b. prevent host-versus-graft disease
c. suppress autoreactive T cells in the graft
d. disable the patient's hematopoietic stem cells but not their circulating leukocytes
e. provide space for colonization of transplanted stem cells in bone marrow stroma
f. destroy tumors of immune-system cells.


b, e, f

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