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Stem cell treatment for incontinence?

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Has anyone had any experience with this treatment following radical prostatectomy and radiation? There are seemingly legitimate clinics claiming that injecting stem cells into a damaged sphincter can help to rejuvenate it and improve the degree of (or achieve) continence, but the few papers I've found in medical/scientific journals say that the treatment is promising but needs more study.

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There are some major safety concerns:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

fda.gov/news-events/press-a...

statnews.com/2019/07/11/can...

washingtonpost.com/national...

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Istomin in reply to Tall_Allen

Thanks. Process needs lots more study, like this one: med.stanford.edu/news/all-n...

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