Walsh loves golf, but he won't be swinging a club for a while. Lynne will join Shawn a week after he arrives in the Washington, D.C. area. After a week of testing to prepare for the procedure, he will undergo a week of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is not effective against kidney cancer. However, the chemotherapy is being used to suppress his immune system, allowing the body to accept the new, foreign stem cells.
Stem cells are immature cells that grow into white blood cells.
The belief is that the patient's own white blood cells are not doing the job in fighting off the cancer, and that healthier, cancer-free cells can do the job. Three of them experienced a complete remission of cancer lasting as long as 27 months. What they found out is that there is a direct correlation between the amount of cancer in your system and whether or not this works,'' said Walsh. The 53 percent who had success were the people with the least amount of cancer. That is the reason why they justified the lung removal.