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To: Clairity; hinckley buzzard; businessprofessor; goat granny

My son (11yrs old at the time) was diagnosed with MS. It specifically targeted his optic nerves. We were referred to a specialist who took a special interest in our son. He recommended a chemo treatment that was rather experimental for MS treatment. My son is now 16, and MS is in remission. He takes no drugs, and has had MRIs quarterly to monitor. No new lesions. We thank God every day.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0706383


8 posted on 07/20/2011 10:05:12 PM PDT by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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I thought I read about a year ago that the UK was experminting with a new stem cell treatment. Some of the patients bone marrow is saved and “treated/augmented”, the rest is nuked via chemo. The new bone marrow is reinserted.


10 posted on 07/20/2011 10:07:40 PM PDT by ak267
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To: OldCountryBoy
That is great news. Bless him and your family. It strikes the young the most, those below 25..

My mother had bowel problems all her life and slightly dragged one foot, but it never stopped her, she just kept on truckin....I was 8 when she was diagnosed, they told her she would be in a wheel chair within 10 years...She died of multiple myeloma and the cancer spread to her spinal cord, that is what finally put her in a wheel chair the last few years of her life...

12 posted on 07/20/2011 10:21:00 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: OldCountryBoy; Lil'freeper

Consider this:

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/neurological-conditions/multiple-sclerosis/


14 posted on 07/20/2011 10:32:56 PM PDT by Rytwyng (I'm still fond of the United States. I just can't find it. -- Fred Reed)
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