Pesando started warning patients to stay out of the protocol. Day summoned the senior clinical staff to a meeting with Kaplan and Pesando. Day would not curb the protocol or start an outside review. The research team did not appreciate those efforts. Graft failures, relapses high Death by leukemia occurs as cancer cells crowd out normal cells in the blood.
Victims suffer infections, bleeding and oxygen deprivation.
Death by graft failure after a bone-marrow transplant is an accelerated but no less agonizing process. The victims, weak from Hiroshima-dose radiation and chemotherapy, fail to accept the marrow that could save their lives. They suffer all the effects of a destroyed immune system and die of infections and bleeding. Graft failure is extraordinarily rare in normal cancer work, occurring 1 percent of the time in tissue-matched transplants between siblings. Deaths related to T-cell depletion in Protocol 126 Protocol 126 consisted of multiple stages.