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Stem cell transplants for breast cancer

1 November 2005

PLoS Medicine publishes the article, "When Clinical Trials Are Compromised: A Perspective from a Patient Advocate". The author Musa Mayer is the founder of the website www.advancedbc.org for patients with advanced breast cancer. The article explores the history of how stem cell transplants were adopted as a treatment for breast cancer, despite a lack of clinical evidence that they improve survival.