encouraged that bone marrow transplantation might be able to cure some breast cancer patients who have a poor prognosis with standard therapy.
Solid Tumors in Children Most pediatric solid tumors are sensitive to chemotherapy and can sometimes be cured by chemotherapy without bone marrow transplantation. But, as might be expected, high-dose therapy and autologous or allogeneic transplantation can cure some children who can't be cured with standard therapy.
Neuroblastoma is the pediatric cancer in which the procedure has been most carefully studied. It appears that some children can have long-lasting remissions—in other words, can probably be cured—with high-dose therapy and bone marrow transplantation. But, as with many other diseases, the optimal timing and treatment procedures haven't been identified yet.
Another common group of solid tumors in children—brain tumors—is also undergoing clinical trials with bone marrow transplantation. How useful the technique is in these cases will have to await further studies.
