Some Lessons from Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (#8)
Importance of immune response in tumour kill – the allogeneic graft-versus-tumour effect.
The difference the cell source makes – the changes that using mobilised peripheral blood cells for transplant have brought to the field : infrastructure, safety, costs, survival, tumour kill.
The graft is more than the erythrocytes, neutrophils and platelets – lymphocytes/NK cells, dendritic cells, mesenchymal stromal cells.
Minimal residual disease – predictor or treatment stratifier?