By Jamie Bartosch – UChicago Medicine –
“I was so sick and tired; I knew I couldn’t keep doing chemo,” said Cordle, 51, who lives in Mapleton, Illinois, just outside Peoria.
The next step would be stem cell transplantation, also known as bone marrow transplantation. The transplant would replace Cordle’s cancerous bone marrow with new stem cells that would reproduce healthy blood cells.
