Autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer.

Invasive aspergillosis complicated by subclavian artery occlusion and costal osteomyelitis after autologous bone marrow transplantation.

A 47 year old woman presented with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis complicated by subclavian artery occlusion and rib fracture due to fungal osteomyelitis. This followed persistent pancytopenia resulting from autologous bone marrow transplantation for metastatic breast cancer.

Is Fatigue a Long-term Side Effect of Breast Cancer Treatment?

BACKGROUND: Fatigue is one of the most common and distressing symptoms experienced by breast cancer survivors. Despite its prevalence, relatively little is known about the characteristics, etiology, or treatment of fatigue in breast cancer survivors. METHODS: This report reviews studies that assessed fatigue in breast cancer patients previously treated with adjuvant radiotherapy, adjuvant chemo...

Current legal intervention regarding "experimental" treatments must be changed: an analysis of high doses of chemotherapy with autologous bone marrow transplantation for breast cancer patients.

Elimination of malignant clonogenic breast cancer cells from human bone marrow.

Autologous bone marrow transplantation is a promising approach to the treatment of breast cancer but is at present limited to patients without bone marrow metastases. To eliminate malignant clonogenic breast cancer cells from normal human bone marrow, immunomagnetic separation has been combined with chemoseparation using 4-hydroperoxycyclophosphamide. Breast cancer cell lines have been mixed wi...

Evaluation of the Repair of Bone Defect after Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transplantation in Rat

Background & Objective: Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) are multipotent stem cells that can proliferate and differentiate into osteogenic cells . T his study aimed to investigate the effects of BMSC transplantation for the repair of bone defects in the rat.   Materials & Methods : Twenty-eight male adult rats were divided into 4 groups. Group 1 ( control group) received no treatment after the...

AUTOLOGOUS MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN THE TREATMENT OF MOPP AND ABVD-RESI STANT HODGKIN\'S DISEASE

Six patients with disseminated Hodgkin's disease resistant to MOPP (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine and prednisolone), and ABVD (adriamycin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine) chemotherapy were treated with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous marrow transplantation. The patients first underwent marrow aspiration and storage for subsequent autologous bone marrow transplant...