Progress in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies.

This joint Special Issue presents modern approaches in the recent advances in stem cell transplantation for the hematological patient, with a special emphasis on progress in conditioning chemotherapy and cellular therapies. The prospect of providing a definitive alternative therapy for various malignancies, rather than conventional chemotherapy management, is indeed clinically, socially, and economically attractive, due to the huge medical, social, and economic burden that a malignancy imposes. Hematological malignancies are considered to be one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in the modern world. [Extracted from the article]