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would stemcells help my copd if so where would be the best place to go thank you
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I think most healthcare professionals would agree that stem cells probably represent the future in treatment of COPD having discovered that they can work with diseased lungs in 2011, at least in laboratory mice.
Presumably, if you had a huge pile of cash you might find someone, somewhere to help you, but for the rest of us 'mere mortals' I believe this treatment is some way off yet.
I also like to think that my grandchildren perhaps, if so afflcited, would be able to avail themselves of this wonderful science in many areas of healthy tissue regeneration.
germany has been doing it for last eight years dusseldorf waiting to see what consultant says as i wan to have it done
ooh, exciting..please let us all know how you get on with this. x
I asked same question in august had 17 replies wont know anything until i have ct scan suppose i will have to push for that as well x
sorry meant to say that when there is any new news i will keep all informed
I so wish we were able to have the know how for this ,As I am having to go down the Tranplant rd which has so many problems with the body coping with allen lung scemcell would be a dream Jackie
Stem cells are a very expensive and unproven treatment as yet, they are hope for the future as Baron has already said it is still at the laboratory stage of development.
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my daughter is a bio technologist with experience in stem cell research although mostly for neuro endocrine cancer, however she tells me that a great deal of work is being done but we are still a long way from a safe and usable treatment, it is much more complicated than the media makes out , I think baron has the right of it more likely for our grand children. Difficult to program stem cells to repair interstitial tissue only( no point repairing lungs if you then turn them cancerous) even then they would have to take your stem cells and produce them in the lab in sufficient quantity very difficult to do at the moment they cannot turn normal cells onto non differentiated stem cells at present only found in embryos and umbilical tubes you can get stem cells from the bone marrow but in small quantity's and not often undifferentiated a lot of private clinics in the world make bold claims but the science just is not there just people taking money from the desperate and vulnerable people
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