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This treatment involves giving very high doses of chemotherapy| to try to destroy all the testicular cancer cells.
As these high doses also damage cells in the bone marrow, certain cells in your blood called peripheral blood stem cells are collected and stored before treatment begins, then returned to the blood afterwards. This is known as stem cell support.
We have a separate section on stem cell and bone marrow transplants| which gives more detailed information.
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