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Can you tell me about leukemia and treatment with stem cells?
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Serious probelm: Leukemias are of several different types, some are acute, others are chronic leukemias. What kind do you have? Stem cells are used to treat difficult cases and this involves high doses of chemotherapy to eradicate cancer and then use of stem cells to rescue the blood formation, so that the body is able to regenerate good blood cells once the bad cells have been eliminated..it is a complex treatemn
Answered 7/23/2014
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