© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 16, 1286,
August 16, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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The Next Transplant Frontier: Treating Solid Tumors
Lowering upfront transplant toxicity has spun off an encouraging sidestream: using the graft-versus-tumor effect to treat otherwise unresponsive solid tumors.
While various teams of researchers refine low-dose transplants for leukemias and lymphomas, Richard Childs, M.D., and colleagues at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., report early success using similar