|  | Sometimes even if chemotherapy seems to have cured a person's cancer, some cancer cells can survive and cause a relapse.
If this happens doctors have to come up with alternative treatment ideas that might work better. These can be:
 | Different combinations of drugs |
| New drugs or therapies |
| Intensive chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant |
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| | "Over a year after I was first diagnosed my disease relapsed. I'd had chemotherapy but that hadn't worked so I needed intensive treatment and a stem cell transplant. I was away from home and my girlfriend for a month; this was the worst time in my treatment but I've been disease-free ever since"
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