After the first round of chemotherapy though the stemitil was dropped from Sara's anti-nausea regimen because she had a very strong reaction to it. She began to halucinate and have violent twitches and shakes and very high anxiety. The Nabilone is quite excellent. Personally I think that it is up to the individual, although Sara has had quite a lot of success with the nabilone. When physicians harvest bone marrow for use in a transplant, it is the stem cells they are seeking.
Stem cells resemble medium sized white blood cells.
Stem Cell Harvesting is like dialysis - the harvester looks at cells in the blood as they go by and removes them with a laser and then saves them to be given back whenever Sara's cells come back. The PSCH is painless. Patients occasionally experience , coldness, numbness around the lips, or cramping in the hands during the harvest. After each session, the stem cells are frozen using a process called cryopreservation. Sara's stem cell harvest was performed over two days in the week following her 3rd chemotherapy session.