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Everyday Therapuetic Cloning Survivors
libfemme ( 06/04/2004, 18:39:49 )We've been using stem cell therapy for years. We just haven't called attention to it.For example, a year ago a guy named Jerry Sloan was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder. He was told he had about 12 months to live unless he had high-dose chemotherapy. But chemotherapy would also destroy his good blood-making bone marrow along with the ill ones. So some of Sloan's blood-making cells were taken from him before the chemotherapy and then transplanted back into him after the procedure."My doctor was very blunt. He said my prognosis might not be too good with the transplant, but I had no chance without it."Blood-making cells are also called stem cells. And transplanting your own stem cells into a diseased part of your body is also known as therapuetic cloning.We've been doing it for years now with blood disorders and it's known as Bone-marrow transplants. Bone marrow contains stem cells.When a patient's own cells are used, the procedure is called an autologous transplant. A transplant from a compatible donor such as a brother or sister is called allogeneic and is performed when the patient's own cells are too diseased.Such stem cell transplants are wide spread today. They treat blood conditions such as lymphoma, myeloma and some leukemias, aplastic anemia, and immune system deficiencies and rare metabolic disorders in children. They also are used experimentally for breast and testicular cancer. This is what the opponents to therapuetic cloning are trying to stop when they propose bans on "therapuetic cloning".
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