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Article: Studies seek answers to tricky questions about bone marrow transplants for breast cancer patients.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- June 19, 1996
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PHILADELPHIA _ When Marie McCook opted to fight her fast-growing breast cancer with high-dose chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, her choices were grim.
The transplant was a controversial, experimental approach that killed up to 10 percent of patients. Yet with standard-dose chemotherapy and radiation, she could have been dead within three years.
Today, five years after she made that frightening choice, McCook is proof that transplantation works.
``I have clear mammograms and my CAT scans are clear,'' said the 40-year-old wife and mother of two. ``It's a very hard road, but the light at the end of the tunnel is not a freight train.''
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