Background: Autologous stem cell transplantation (autoSCT) has an important role in the treatment of patients with symptomatic multiple myeloma (MM). Treatment options for myeloma have expanded in ...
Chemotherapy is still used in these procedures, but it’s generally not as intense as autologous transplant. The idea here is that once a cancer patient is in remission, the healthy immune system ...
A transplant from another person is called a donor or an allogeneic transplant. A transplant using your own stem cells is called an autograft or autologous transplant. GvHD is a possible side effect ...