University of Iowa marrow transplants save cancer patients
Dr. Roger Gingrich leads Iowa City program using patients own marrow after intensive chemotherapy. Since 1980 the unit treated 730 adults and 14 bed pediatric unit opened in 1986. Breast cancer patients 130 treated with 35 to 40 percent five year survivors.
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Toddville woman credits transplant in cancer battle
Patricia Park, 51, says a 1991 bone marrow transplant at the University of Iowa Hospitals saved her from inflammatory breast cancer after doctors believed six months to live. She endured high dose chemo, nine weeks in hospital, and biopsy pain, then recovered to a healthy life with her husband and three children.
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