When treating leukemia, a cancer of the blood, doctors will often administer a bone marrow transplant to the patient. Why would a bone marrow transplant help treat cancer of the blood?(1 point)

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Bone marrow makes stem cells that turn into various blood cells.
Bone marrow makes stem cells that turn into various blood cells.

Bone marrow makes cells that would attack and kill the cancer cells.
Bone marrow makes cells that would attack and kill the cancer cells.

New bone marrow would replace the bone marrow lost to the cancer.
New bone marrow would replace the bone marrow lost to the cancer.

New bone marrow would replace the blood lost to the cancer.

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The correct response is:

Bone marrow makes stem cells that turn into various blood cells.

A bone marrow transplant helps treat leukemia by reintroducing healthy stem cells that can produce normal blood cells, thus replacing the cancerous cells that are disrupting normal blood production.