Survival of stage-4 breast cancer patients improves with stem cell treatment

Survival of stage-4 breast cancer patients improves with stem cell treatment, study finds - Office of Communications & Public Affairs - Stanford University School of Medicine: Researchers found that a greater proportion of patients who received the aggressive treatment 12 to 14 years ago, followed by a rescue with their own, specially purified blood stem cells that had been purged of cancer, survived compared with those who were rescued with unmanipulated blood grafts.