Measuring Quality Breast Cancer Bone Marrow Transplantation Bone marrow transplantation is an innovative treatment that may prevent breast cancer from recurring or spreading to other areas of the body in certain women.
Success depends on careful patient selection and the physician's expertise.
Bone marrow transplantation should be performed only at an institution with an experienced bone marrow transplant team. Then, the patient receives a very high dose of chemotherapy to kill the remaining cancer cells. Bone marrow cells also are killed in the process. The stored marrow is then reintroduced into the body, and it multiplies to produce healthy fresh marrow. Measuring quality in ways that are useful to people is a new idea in health care.