Stem Cell in Cancer Cure
Stem cells are immature cells found in the bone marrow, blood stream, and in umbilical cords. These immature stem cells have the ability to divide persistently and develop into any type of cell in the body, including
- Red blood cells that carry oxygen
- White blood cells that fight infection
- Platelets that help blood to clot
Stem cells can be used in bone marrow transplantation and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation. The main object of these procedures in cancer cure is to restore stem cells that have been destroyed by high dose chemotherapy and/or radiation.
High dose chemotherapy and radiation can seriously destroy bone marrow of cancer patients while killing cancer cells. Without healthy bone marrow, human body is unable to make the blood cells needed to carry oxygen, prevent infection and bleeding.
Stem cell transplant is a process of infusing healthy stem cells into patients who have undergone high-dose chemotherapy and/or radiation. Once the healthy stem cells are infused into the patient’s blood stream, the cells move from the blood vessels to the center of the bones where they begin making new blood cells. Consequently, patients can tolerate higher doses of treatment and stay higher chances in cancer cure.
There are three types of stem cell transplants:
- Autologous Stem Cell Transplants – in which bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells are taken from the patient himself
- Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplants – in which healthy bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells from another person either immediate family member of non-related individual
- Syngeneic Stem Cell Transplants – in which health stem cells are taken from patient’s identical twin.
There are few factors to determine whether or not a stem cell transplant need to use in a patient’s cancer treatment:
- What type of cancer (normally stem cell therapy use to treat leukaemia and other conditions affecting the bone marrow)
- Patient’s age
- Patient’s general health
- What response a patient to certain treatments
Like other conventional cancer treatment, stem cell transplants also carry potential side effects includes include anemia, loss of appetite, thrombocytopenia (bleeding), veno-occlusive disease and interstitial pneumonia syndrome. In the longer term, stem cell cancer cure may cause infertility, cataracts and increasing the risk of developing new cancer.
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