title: Concepts underlying autotransplants for cancer.
abstract: In this brief review we consider concepts that underlie use of autotransplants to treat cancer including whether more intensive chemotherapy is better, whether an autotransplant is needed, whether the benefit of more intensive chemotherapy exceeds the risk of causing relapse with the graft, whether blood or bone marrow autotransplants are better and whether immune-mediated anti-cancer effects operate after autotransplants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Gale
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Butturini
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous