TIMES OF INDIA,BANGALORE - FRIDAY FEB 14,2003

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT NOW IN CITY

Now , cancer patients from Karnataka need not travel elsewhere with highdose chemotherapy being supplemented by autologous bone marrow transplants.

In what is probably a first for the city, two Bangalore-based oncologists have provided a blood cancer patient with an autologous bone marrow transplant after he was subjected to high dose chemotherapy.

"High dose chemotherapy not only destroys cancer cells, it also destroys normal cells threate