Posted on 01/18/2016 11:23:43 AM PST by shove_it
Wheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patients able to walk again after stem-cell therapy
A pioneering new stem cell treatment is reversing and then halting the potentially crippling effects of multiple sclerosis. Patients embarking on a ground-breaking trial of the new treatment have found they can walk again and that the disease even appears to be stopped in its tracks...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wow. Faster, please.
Can you clarify “stem cells”; are these from aborted babies or is there another definition of stem cells?
Bfl
It’s from the patient’s own blood, taken out before the immune system is wiped out with chemo. Then the stem cells are put back in, rebooting the immune system.
“The treatment is being carried out at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield and Kings College Hospital, London and involves use a high dose of chemotherapy to knock out the immune system before rebuilding it with stem cells taken from the patient’s own blood.”
“It’s from the patient’s own blood, taken out before the immune system is wiped out with chemo. Then the stem cells are put back in, rebooting the immune system.”
Isn’t this also a treatment for some cancers?
Fascinating. Thanks for posting this!
Don’t they irradiate the bone marrow for that? I don’t know.
uses the patient’s saved and stored stem cells after chemo therapy. makes sense. want to see how long the effects last.
Adult stem cells... I don’t think to date there has been any successful results from anything using fetal stem cells....
This may have changed, but I haven’t heard of anything since I last checked.
“Don’t they irradiate the bone marrow for that? I don’t know.”
I think you may be right. There is this new technology using “nanobots” to convey cancer therapy drugs directly to the bad cells that seems to have promise. Just think what our money could do for mankind if we didn’t have to pi$$ it away on wars and wealfare for bums.
If you read the article, you’ll see that it clearly states that they used a patient’s OWN stem cells.
There’s a similar treatment that’s helping people with ALS.
No. It hardly makes sense at all. I can see this as a way to prevent further damage, but once those nerve cells are gone, they don’t grow back. Perhaps there is some retraining of neurons that are left, but the sclerotic patches don’t heal with new nerves.
I’m waiting for them to be able to regrow neurons. I’m having a lot of senior moments.
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I’m actually going in for an MRI tomorrow morning. If it shows active lesions then we’re moving on to Lemtrada (cancer drug Campath). They also knock your immune system out first then 5 straight days of Lemtrada. You wait a year then do it again. After that, if it takes, you’re pretty much done.
Unfortunately it has an FDA Black Box warning and only recommended for people who’ve tried at least 2 other drugs without any progress. If I switch to it I’ll be on my 7th MS drug.
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vette6387 wrote: "Isn't this also a treatment for some cancers?"
You might be recalling this recent report:
The innovative program is a radical departure from traditional thinking that attempted to "cure" a patient's cancer. Instead, doctors and researchers at Baylor's Mary Crowley Cancer Center are focused on controlling the disease, using cells taken from the tumor growing inside a patient.
After harvesting cells from the tumor, an individualized vaccine is created. Patients receive a monthly injection of the specialized vaccine engineered to allow the body's immune system to keep the cancer in check.
Their own stem cells. Entirely moral and ethical.
hmmm. I know it is a relief and hopefully, prayerfully, will not revert to turning on itself, but let’s say most MS shows up when you are in your 20’s. If every 20 years you have to do this but live a normal life otherwise, I would do it.
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