Expert: Claes-Gustaf Nordquist, M.D. - 7/8/2008

Question
Is it possible to treat secondary bone cancer following breast cancer using a bone marrow transplant? I haven't found any information linking the two but would like to know if it is possible and if so what would be involved and what would be the most likely outcome? Thank you.

Answer
Well not at present anyway. In theory bone marrow transplantation could be used after such a strong chemo therapy treatment that the bone marrow of the patient would be completely destroyed. As far as I know it has however never been done in this situation. (It is often done in leukemias). And I'm not sure it would be a good idea in this situation either. When we can grow bone marrow from the patient's own stem cells so there is no risk of immunological problems or reinfection with cancer cells then the whole thing may be different!
But then is then and now is now.

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