Table 3.

Tolerability and quality of life associated with stem cell transplantation compared with other treatments

	Stem cell transplantation (n = 77)	Other treatments (n = 124)
Tolerability, n (%)	n = 75	n = 105
Very difficult	20 (26.7)	13 (12.4)
Somewhat difficult	28 (37.3)	37 (35.2)
Neither easy nor difficult	14 (18.7)	22 (21.0)
Somewhat easy	13 (17.3)	33 (31.4)
Quality of life, n (%)	n = 76	n = 108
Greatly improved	28 (36.8)	25 (23.1)
Somewhat improved	26 (34.2)	46 (42.6)
No improvement	22 (28.9)	37 (34.3)