My father is going away today to begin a bone marrow transplant.
They will harvest some stem cells from him, then use radiation to kill off (hopefully) all the cancerous cells. Then they replace the dead cells with (again, hopefully) healthy marrow grown from the stem cells. If all goes well he will be back with us sometime in August. He could still have immune system issues for up to a year, but if this works he will likely be cancer free for 3 to 5 years.
We've had some setbacks previously but Dad is still with us and we hope he will be around for quite some while yet...
