Dr Michael Seckl, a medical oncologist, and his team at the hospital found that treating cancerous cells with Taxol and stem cell infusion - an advanced form of bone marrow transplantation - was successful.

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This, she adds, should be put into context: the development of bone-marrow transplantation or monoclonal-antibody treatments both took several decades.

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"There's no evidence that bone-marrow transplantation is curative, " says Schenkein.

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