Anyone who has lived through a peripheral blood stem cell transplant knows how debilitating it is, how sick you feel and how vulnerable you become.  Below is a quote and link from an article discussing an improvement to the basic pbsct.  Unfortuneatly, this article raises more questions than it answers. 

1)What does it mean to "activate or turn on the cells in the lab?"  

2) What kind of cells? White, Red, Platelets?

3)How are these cells "enhanced?"

4) Dead or live pheumonia vaccine?   

Does anyone know anything about this process?  This Dr. Rapoport?  David 

"Before a bone marrow transplant, hematologists collect a patient's own immune cells, then activate, or turn on, the cells in a lab. The enhanced cells are injected back into the patient, along with a pneumonia vaccine, jump-starting the immune system. "It will be better able to respond to infections and also be better able to attack and eliminate cancer cells that may remain," Dr. Rapoport tells DBIS"

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