Instead, they help you recover your ability to produce stem cells after treatment with very high doses of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or both. They all use very high doses of chemo (sometimes along with radiation) to kill cancer cells. Yet, many fundamental questions regarding the specific roles of stem cell in cancer progression and therapy remain elusive, impeding the effective clinical translation of stem cell research. However, in multiple myeloma and some types of leukemia, the stem cell transplant may work against cancer directly. Stem cell transplants are used to replace bone marrow cells that have€been destroyed by cancer or destroyed by the chemo7and/or radiation8used to treat the cancer. There are two types of transplants. PDF | On Jan 1, 2015, Anjula Sachan and others published Stem cell therapy for cancer treatment | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

The concept that cancer might evolve from a small population of cells with stem cells properties was proposed about 150 years ago4, 5. There are different kinds of stem cell transplants. In an autologous (AUTO) transplant, doctors take healthy stem cells from your Your doctor will decide which is best for you. This small population is called cancer stem cells (CSCs), or cancer initiating cells (CICs), or tumor stem cells (TSCs)2, 3. This procedure might be called peripheral stem cell transplant or cord blood transplant, depending on where the stem cells come from. How Does Stem Cell Treatment Work?

A stem cell transplant, also called a bone marrow transplant, can be used to treat certain types of cancer. Stem cell transplants do not usually work against cancer directly.