No difference in survival between leukaemia patients 10 years after undergoing stem-cell or marrow transplant
Patients transplanted with peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) have no difference in survival compared with patients given bone marrow after 10 years, according to the largest randomised study comparing the effect of type of transplant on survival, published Online First in The Lancet Oncology.
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