Tuesday, November 9, 2010

My experience with stem cell therapy

After suffering pain in my breasts, I contacted our family doctor who told me that I was suffering from breast cancer. It was but natural for me to get depressed, but the doctor suggested that the deadly disease could be fought back using stem cells therapy.

High-dose chemotherapy with stem cells transplant is a proven healing option that already has been used for women with high-risk primary or advanced metastatic breast cancer. Thousands of women with advanced breast cancer have been successfully treated using this method since 1990s.

I had many questions about stem cells treatment and menstrual blood storage, but the doctor assured me saying menstrual blood is an easily accessible, renewable and non-controversial source of stem cells that feature proven potential to treat a host of chronic and deadly diseases, like that of leukemia, refractory anemia, osteoporosis, stroke, breast cancer and all that . Moreover, these highly prolific menstrual blood stem cells are easily obtainable using non-invasive methodology.

Normally, bone marrow is not competent to endure high doses of chemotherapy, but use of the stem cells in the treatment enables the patient to receive higher doses of chemotherapy. Doctors collect stem cells from the patient and freeze them to give inject them back into the patient body after the completion of high dose chemotherapy. But, new researches have discovered that high-dose chemotherapy combined with stem cell therapy could have the same long-standing results as conventional chemotherapy treatment.

As per some estimates, almost 30 percent of patients with advanced breast cancer are finally diagnosed with brain lesions. But, stem cells are capable of halting the metastasizing of breast cancer into the brain. Stem cells collected from the body of the patient are employed to target and deliver tumor-killing drugs that stop the disease from advancing further.

Doctors directed me to isolate menstrual blood so that stem cells could be collected to use them in the treatment. Menstrual blood stem cells are collected from the lining of their uterus during monthly cycle, which was earlier discarded off as sanitary waste. Menstrual blood stem cells possess the ability to repair and renew the building blocks of the body to which they belong.

The stem cells treatment given to me showed results. The pain is now gone as the deadly disease has successfully been put to an end. After mastectomy and tumor removal, my doctors are now using stem cells to reconstruct breast tissue. I am going to suggest the stem cells therapy to my friends who are also suffering from the same disease.

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