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Published online 25 September 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000928-4
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Stemming kidney cancer
Stem cell transplants are problematic but they can halt the progress of certain cancers, Helen Gavaghan reports.
Stem cells from a brother or sister transplanted to a sufferer of advanced kidney cancer can reverse, sometimes completely, the growth of tumours that have spread around the body, new research shows. The work is in its earliest stages, but in a trial of 19 patients, more than half benefited.
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