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Stem cell transplant shrinks tumour metastases

Stem cell transplantation may offer hope to patients with advanced kidney cancer - usually considered an incurable illness.

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News from The Scientist 2000, 1(1):20000914-01

Published

14 September 2000

LONDON, 14 September (SPIS MedWire). Stem cell transplantation may offer hope to patients with advanced kidney cancer - usually considered an incurable illness. According to a report in today's New England Journal of Medicine, 19 patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, which had not responded to conventional therapy, received low-dose chemotherapy and immunosuppression followed by stem cell transplantation from a related donor. In seven patients there was shrinkage of metastases, and three showed complete disappearance of all secondary tumours.


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