Thank you all for your kind words and replies. It seems as though there is no one best option as far as treatment choices. If there was, that's the one that everyone would use. So, there is no right or wrong choice in treatment. We are struggling with trying to just pick one and go on faith.

He could just take oral medications and hopefully get into remission and manage it but if it does it for too long it could make it harder to harvest stem cells. On the other hand, he doesn't want to harvest stem cells if he responded well to treatment and could stay in remission. There's no way of knowing if he will need a stem cell transplant in the future or not.

Cancer really does suck.