| One of the patients attending the unit that day was a man who had received an allogeneic stem cell transplant nine months earlier. |
| In response, he had additional chemotherapy and an autologous stem cell transplant later that year. |
| He was treated 10 months later with autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. |
| That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights. |
| For example a blood stem cell will go on to become a red blood cell, platelet or white blood cell. |
| Yet the rejection of his predecessor's religious conservative approach to the stem cell issue was total. |
