Cutting the Umbilical Cord. Image by dericafox via Flickr .- A four-year-old girl has become the first patient in Spain to recover from brain cancer after being treated with stem cells from her own umbilical cord blood. The announcement of the girl's recovery came March 7 from the company Crio-Cord, a stem cell bank in Spain. Alba was born healthy in 2007, but at age two she was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer. Her treatment consisted of extracting the majority of the tumor from her brain. She was then given chemotherapy to reduce and eventually eliminate the remainder of the tumor. Alba's blood system was destroyed during the final round of chemo, thus requiring a transplant of cord blood stem cells. The procedure was carried out in 2009 by Dr. Luis Madero of the Department of Oncology and Hematology at the Nino Jesus Hospital in Madrid. Today, four year-old Alba is a healthy girl. Read more here: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/cord-blood-stem-cells-used-to-cure-girl-of-brain-cancer-in-spain/
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Cord blood stem cells used to help cure girl of brain cancer in Spain
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