Stem cell and cancer info needed!!!?
Hi Guys,
I work with someone who is claiming their relative was diagnosed with breast cancer 12 months ago and was receiving treatment for it. (not sure what though) she then 6 months later claimed her friends cancer had spread to her lungs and the cancer in now terminal. However, she is saying that she has never even been offered to have her breasts removed and is now receiving stem cell therapy. This is definatly not lukemia as I am aware it has been researched that stem cell therapy can help.
Basically! And I been spun a story and feeling sorry for someone who is just telling lies!?
This girl is knows for tall tales.
Thanks in advance! Mwah xxx
She has never mentioned (non) hogkins lympoma. Oh also the woman has never had any form or radio/chemo therapy.
Not sure exactly what you are referring to . . there are autologous stem cell transplants where a persons own stem cells are used in the treatment of solid tumors. And, there is a blood marrow transplant which is often offered to a leukemia patient . . although both can be done. The difference is that one transplant uses blood stem cells and the other uses bone marrow. Both can treat different diseases as well as different types of cancer including solid tumors and leukemia.
NCI: Bone Marrow Transplantation and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation: Questions and Answers
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/therapy/bone-marrow-transplant
I have no idea about your friend, but I am familiar with autologous blood stem cell transplant. My son had multiple abdominal tumors and this was the treatment we pursued for him . . unfortunately treatment requires ‘no evidence of disease’ or ‘minimal residual disease’ . . my son came within a hour of being admitted to the transplant unit when they found another 4cm tumor in the pelvis. My son had previously had stem cells removed from his blood in a process called ‘harvesting’ . . a machine like dialysis is used to remove the blood, filter it, and separates out the stem cells. The stem cells are frozen for later use. The patient is admitted to a sterile transplant unit in the hospital and undergoes high dose chemotherapy to kill off all sign of cancer . . but the chemo also destroys the immune system . . the patients own stem cells are than transfused back into the patient and within a few weeks a ‘new immune system’ starts to grow . . hopefully cancer free . . but there is no guarantee. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.
So . . yes . . your friend could be having stem cell transplant . . but she would be in the hospital and under constant supervision for six months at least if not longer.
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