Thanks to the use of stem cells, 68-year-old army veteran John Gilmore pushed his mantle cell lymphoma into complete remission within just one year.
“Evidence has proven that the stem cell transplant method helps patients with cancers such as mantle cell lymphoma, improving progression-free survival by adding years to their life expectancy in remission,” says Mojtaba Akhtari, MD, a hematologist-oncologist, professor of medicine, and chief of adult bone marrow stem cell transplant at the Loma Linda University Cancer Center.