Bone marrow transplant
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:42 pm
The Canadian MS society has been funding a bone marrow transplant project -run by Dr Mark Freedman. They take away some bone marrow and freeze it and then kill off your immune system with chemo drugs. The bone marrow is then used to give you a new immune system - hopefully free of the immune cells that are thought to cause MS. The treatment is pretty extreme and one brave patient died. To date some 12 patients have gone through the treatment and it has stopped the progression of their MS. In some cases patients have experienced improvements. In one case a young woman who was getting worse underwent the treatment and has seen impressive results. No one knows if it is a cure and will not be able to assess this for a number of years. Here is the tv article on this story. Double click on the picture on the screen.
http://www.cbc.ca/clips/mov/duthie_ms060315.mov
It's one of those nice MS stories which must give us hope.
Ian
PS Arron, I copied the clip from anther site so apologies if I have broken any rules.
http://www.cbc.ca/clips/mov/duthie_ms060315.mov
It's one of those nice MS stories which must give us hope.
Ian
PS Arron, I copied the clip from anther site so apologies if I have broken any rules.