Study: Aggressive bone cancer treatment best

This article talks about how British researchers have shown that high-dose chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant together are far more effective against the bone cancer multiple myeloma than standard chemo. Patients in the eight-year study who got the more intensive treatment usually survived a year longer. Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, spokesman for the American Cancer Society said, “A one-year increase in survival in a study like this is very significant.” Also, patients getting the more intensive treatment were five times more likely to have all traces of all cancer eliminated from their blood. Patients and doctors have believed that when it comes to cancer, more aggressive treatment is better. Earlier studies of high-dose chemotherapy and stem ce...