The popular opinion that embryos created in a petri dish to harvest his stem cells are far from true. In reality these cells of aborted fetuses are taken or fertilized eggs that are left over from in vitro fertilization. Tissues that would otherwise be discarded, none of which a man could ever be.
They are now the answer to the prayer of patients who would otherwise doomed. Once diagnosed with liver or pancreatic cancer patients who survive a year opportunity with traditional methods is less than 3%, with the right amount of embryonic stem cells in a top ranking facility such as the Beijing Great Wall International Cancer Center, treated the survival above 80% for the first year and still less than 76% after 5 years. Now tell me if this is a valuable and moral undertaking is?
If God has created and show us the key to longevity, mental and physical health than this Holy Grail of the "eternal" Youth sure to find in this technology. Unfortunately, few countries to some developed procedures where the safety of patients is practically guaranteed:
1. There is no known toxic side effects since they ESC treatments in the Beijing Great Wall International Cancer Center in clinical application started in 2003, treating more than 10,000 people.
2. all cells under sterile surgical conditions are processed and only between 15 and 56 days old fertilized eggs are extracted.
3. each set of cells processing takes two months; During this time they are strict genetically tested for infectious diseases, defects and tissue transplantation safety problems in heredity.
4. about the two month about 2/3 of ESC processing of genetic tests prove to be unsuitable for treatments and be deleted.
5. the stem cells frozen at the extremely low temperature of-196 ° Celsius and stored in liquid nitrogen to guarantee their safety and that they do not mutate.
6. the cells gradually restored to normal body temperature before the transplant.
7. the patients receive a full range of diagnostic and clinical treatment as well as ongoing medical follow-up after treatment.
8. stem cell transplantation is a minimally invasive procedure whereby only small intervention in the patient's body.
9. Unlike adult stem cells, embryonic cells that use them may not be rejected by the patient due to potential incompatibility.
Unfortunately the treatment in China is still quite expensive and not covered by health care providers. Wouldn't it be great if instead of treatment of diseases we would maintain health and youth by stem cells available to the general public? How would you as always to look and feel like 80 years old and 35?
The Beijing Great Wall International Cancer Center now has an English language portal called StemCell China, http://stemcell.cn.com/and here is a list of diseases that are now treated with embryonic stem cells there: http://stemcell.cn.com/36_diseases.html
No comments:
Post a Comment