DO
STEM CELL TREATMENTS WORK?
Ask most
US doctors if repair stem cell treatments work and they will tell you
“NO!” You may also get condescending
retorts, misinformation and derisive abuse.
But if you press them on the question, eventually they will give you
the reason why they believe repair stem cells don’t work. The top answer WHY STEM CELLS DON’T WORK
is… (Survey Says!):
There have been no
clinical trials to date that prove they do work.
When all is said and done, in the end, there is nothing
that will convince a western doctor of the effectiveness of stem cell
treatments besides clinical trials. So
have there been any stem cell clinical trials? Is all of the evidence
supporting the benefits of stem cell treatments anecdotal as virtually every
western doctor says? NOT ON YOUR LIFE! Have there been clinical trials? The answer is a resounding “YES!”
According to the National Institutes of Health, there
were and are ~2600 stem cell clinical trials around the world - http://www.clinicaltrails.gov/
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Of those ~2600 trials, there are only nine
mentions of embryonic stem cells.
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Of those 9, there
are no actual embryonic clinical trials.
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Of those ~2600, there are ~2591 mentions of
adult stem cells.
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Of those ~2591,
about half of them (~1300) are actual adult stem cell clinical trials.
Let’s look at (only) a few of those ~1300
clinical trials:
HEART
DISEASE CLINICAL TRIALS
via http://donrmargolis.com/Home/Blog/April-2009/A-Brief-History-of-Stem-Cells.aspx
- 2002 - clinical trial led by
Dr. Hans Dohmann plus six colleagues in Brazil took 21 transplant
candidates and gave 14 of them bone marrow cells. The results were so
spectacular that the American Heart Association accepted the paper and
it was presented in 2003. Five of the seven in the control group opted
in to make a total of 19 stem cell transplants. The mortality rate for
transplant candidates is about 35% per year. At that rate there would be,
of those 19, only 2.2 patients still alive without a transplant after
five years. There were, in fact, 12 alive as of Dec. 31, 2007; more than
five years down the road.
- In 2002, if you did not want
or could not get a heart transplant (as is true of 90%+
of dying heart patients in North America) then you had to make a choice
between stem cell treatment or standard Western Cardiology methodology.
1. Western Cardiology methodology in
2002 kept 12% of transplant-waiting-patients alive for five years.
2. Adult/repair Stem cell treatments
in 2002 kept 63% of transplant-waiting-patients alive for five years. More than 5
times more heart transplant candidates lived for 5 years with stem cell
treatments than the typical heart transplant recipient! Btw, stem
cell science has made huge advancements in treating heart disease over the
past seven years.
- 2003 - Dr. Andreas Zeiher of
the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt began much larger trials. As of 2007,
he has overseen more ASC implants into hearts than anyone, both in and
out of clinical trials and he was the first to prove that timely implant
of RSC in new heart attack victims improves future mortality and
morbidity - http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/search?journalcode=circulationaha&fulltext=zeiher
- 2004 - Dr. Amit Patel of
Pittsburgh completed two of the most successful trials ever. In Uruguay, he proved, on a group of
ischemic heart failure patients, that a bypass plus cells was infinitely
better than a bypass only. That same year, TheraVitae, in Israel,
developed a new, powerful blood-derived stem cell and dared to treat the
sickest patients no clinical trial (except Brazil) would consider.
- 2004 - One of the Brazilians,
Dr. Perin, came to Texas, used the Brazil results to get the first ASC
heart clinical trial approved by the FDA. Over a dozen such approvals
were granted in the next 12-18 months.
- Clinical
trials at the Mayo Clinic in Florida have seen successes in reversing
and curing pulmonary hypertension using adult stem cells from patients’
own blood.
- A timeline of cardiac
history/predictions: http://donrmargolis.com/Home/Blog/January-2008/DON-MARGOLIS-ADULT-STEM-CELL-CARDIOLOGY-QUOTES-200.aspx
DIABETES
CLINICAL TRIALS
- FIRST
USE OF CORD BLOOD TO ALTER COURSE OF TYPE 1 DIABETES, June 25, 2007 – (I’ll
bet nobody heard of this one!)…transfusion of stored, autologous
(i.e. the person’s own), umbilical cord blood into a group of children
newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes appears to have reduced their disease severity, possibly re-setting
the immune system and slowing the destruction of their insulin-producing
cells, according to a report presented
today at the American Diabetes Association's 67th Annual Scientific
Sessions. –http://parentsguidecordblood.org/content/media/m_pdf/ADA_T1D_PR-06-25-07.pdf
- (The ADA in 2007 knew stem cells can treat
Diabetes type 1 in children!)
- Diabetes type 1 stem cell
clinical trial – Enrollment 11/2003-4/2008, follow-up
until December 2008 - http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/type-1-diabetes-stem-cells-clinical-trial/
- Why no diabetes clinical
trial s in the US when mice were cured of diabetes
type 1 in the 1990’s? - Weissman, a professor of pathology and
developmental biology at Stanford University, states: “Stem cells are
rare, self-renewing, and can regenerate body tissues.” He repeatedly expressed
frustration that while many of his discoveries seemed to hold remarkable
potential for life-saving treatments, commercial or regulatory hurdles
have prevented his scientific research from benefiting human
beings. One
example is, his mid-’90s research on type I diabetes, in which he
demonstrated the ability to fully cure type I diabetes in mice using
stem cells. Even
though the experiments avoided political controversy by using adult/repair stem cells,
which do not come from embryos, Weissman ran into a road block when
pharmaceutical companies refused to sponsor clinical trials. The therapy
went nowhere. “The pharmaceutical
companies had put profit over principle, preferring to keep diabetes
sufferers dependent on costly insulin than to cure them once and for
all.” - http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/research-from-90s-cures-type-1-diabetes/
CEREBRAL
PALSY CLINICAL TRIALS
AMPUTATION CLINICAL TRIAL
- Bone Marrow Stem Cell Treatment
Saves Legs - The results of a clinical trial to save
volunteers’ leg from amputation by injecting (autologous bone marrow)
stem cell concentrate to the limb affected by thrombo angitis
obliterance (TAO) have been encouraging. The clinical trial is being
conducted on patients suffering from blocks in the artery of the leg.
Sixty patients enrolled, all of them were smokers. Some had
diabetes. “We have got very good
results,”said Dr. K.S. Vijayaragavan, head of the Department of Vascular
Surgery, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, who is conducting the
trial. “The legs of 89 per cent of the
patients have been saved.”
STROKE
CLINICAL TRIALS
- “The stem cells had excellent
safety profile. After carrying out Pet scans and MRIs thrice in a year
on patients who received stem cells, we found no side effects. This
study shows that stem cells are a safe and feasible therapy in acute
stroke. http://repairstemcell.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/stem-cell-research-shows-adult-stem-cells-help-stroke-victims-adult-stem-cell-research/
- The University of Texas, Health Science
Center at Houston July 1, 2009 Several months after becoming the first patient in
the United States to undergo a revolutionary new stroke treatment,
Roland "Bud" Henrich continues to improve. Doctors intravenously
injected Henrich, 61, with stem cells taken from his own bone marrow…"The
stem cells, we believe, may help repair the damage to his brain caused
by the stroke," said Sean Savitz, M.D., assistant professor of
neurology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the
study’s lead investigator. "Animal studies have shown that when you
administer stem cells after stroke, the cells enhance the healing. We
know that stem cells have some kind of guidance system and migrate to
the area of injury. They’re not making new brain cells but they may be
enhancing the repair processes and reducing inflammatory damage." http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/TMCServices/News/2009/07-01/Stem+Cells+Tested+for+Treatment+of+Stroke.htm
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CLINICAL TRIALS
- Hematopoietic stem cell
transplantation for multiple sclerosis – 2002 clinical trial based
on data collected from TWENTY medical institutes around the world. Conclusion: Autologous HSCT
suggest positive early results in the management of progressive MS and
is feasible – http://www.springerlink.com/content/1b19ldgyecqvny3w/
- Autologous Stem Cell
Transplantation in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, Sep 16, 1999 These results appear better than those
achieved by any other treatment of progressive multiple sclerosis,
including beta-interferon… - http://www.springerlink.com/index/H6X0866N90633266.pdf
- "Dose of stem cells
reverses some MS" -
January 31, 2009 – STUDY - "A dose of their own stem cells
"reset" the malfunctioning immune system of patients with
early-stage multiple sclerosis and, for the first time, reversed their
disability, according to researchers at Northwestern University in
Chicago. Three years after being treated, on average, 17 of the 21
patients had improved on tests, suffering fewer problems with their
balance or vision, 16 had experienced no relapse, and none had
deteriorated. This marks the
first “reversal" of neurologic loss caused by this disease, says
Richard Burt of Northwestern University in Chicago.
What
is clear is that the overwhelming majority of Repair Stem Cell vs Disease clinical
trials have been successful.
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The majority of patients treated with stem cells get better.
Not all, but the
majority.
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The majority of patients treated with stem cells get better.
Not cured, but better.
No
western doctor in the world can come to matching the statistical
success of stem cell treatments with pill-based “cures” for diseases that
they define as “untreatable” and “incurable.”
WHAT HAVE WE
LEARNED?
What have
we learned?
- Now you know there are 1300 real adult/repair stem cell clinical trials.
- Now you know that
adult/repair stem cell treatments work on most
patients.
- Now you know that while the
disease is not cured, their condition does improve considerably.
- Now you know that stem cell
treatments are a significantly better
choice than pill after pill after pill.
- Now you know that stem cell
treatments can provide more benefit to
patients with so-called “incurable” diseases like
Diabetes, Heart Disease, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis and Cerebral
Palsy.
Based upon this information, can you now
answer the question DO STEM CELL TREATMENTS WORK?
OF COURSE YOU CAN!
Based upon this information, can you now
answer the question DO STEM CELL TREATMENTS WORK unequivocally and without a shadow of a
doubt?
OF COURSE YOU CAN!
Well
do they?
OF COURSE THEY DO!
Green light!
Green
light means go! You may now take the
next step in your plans for treatment! If you have any questions at all about
stem cell treatments, clinical trials or the information you’ve seen here,
please do not hesitate to contact the Repair Stem Cell Institute: http://repairstemcells.com
or don@repairstemcells.com
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#2 ARE STEM CELL TREATMENT BENEFITS MERELY A PLACEBO EFFECT?
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