Brief Answer: Please refer below Detailed Answer: Hi Thanks for your query. It appears that you have a had very good response to therapy for your myeloma. Unfortunately this is an incurable disease as of now and we can only try to control it for as long as possible. To this end, an autologous transplant is the best option available for long term control. After that you may continue the thalidomide as maintenance therapy. It has been shown that autologous transplant works best when the disease has responded to initial therapy, not when the disease flares up again. Also, I don't know if you have been explained the procedure well. It is not actually a transplant, but your own cells will be infused back to you after high-dose chemo has been administered to control the disease. These stem cells are just to regrow the blood cells after high-dose chemo has damaged your normal stem cells. The actual therapy is the high-dose chemo. Hope I have answered your query. I will be available to answer further followup queries, if any.

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Brief Answer: You can certainly preserve stem cells Detailed Answer: However, nobody can say with certainty that your disease will be controlled till MAy-June. Probably it will, but there are chances that it won't. Hence this decision has to be entirely yours. Good centers for transplant are AIIMS, New Delhi, TMH, Mumbai and CMC Vellore.

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