To: shove_it
"The new technique, which is a treatment usually used to fight leukaemia, involves using chemotherapy to entirely eradicate the damaged immune system, before rebooting it with a transfusion of bone marrow cells."
Makes sense as a way to treat an auto-immune disorder.
2 posted on
06/10/2016 7:01:14 AM PDT by
null and void
(Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-- c-- c-- crook! Crook, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
To: null and void
I met a woman about 12 yrs ago with MS, she was a quadriplegic in her early 20s and they did chemo on her. They said it was a one time chance but it worked. She still had it and had bad spells at times but has led a fairly normal life for 37 years.
11 posted on
06/10/2016 7:24:04 AM PDT by
tiki
To: null and void
Ten years ago I read about HSCT being done successfully for a severely disabled Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferer whose inflammatory process was otherwise deemed un-treatable. She came through HSCT completely symptom-free.
I'd wanted to follow the story because it was of particular interest to me (I have R.A.) and never saw a follow-up. It made me wonder whether she had a bad relapse. Or if there were other side-effects of the treatment down the line which made them withdraw their first, optimistic assessment.
32 posted on
06/10/2016 9:14:05 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Point of objective reality.)
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