Its not risk free.... there is a 5% (or 1% however you read it) death rate. But I bet there are many that would line up for this chance.Eliminating MS completely and watching patients improve surprised both Freedman and Dr. Harold Atkins, a bone-marrow transplant expert, who started the study. The two originally set out to monitor the development of the disease and find a way to treat it. Their theory was this: Wipe out the entire immune system, reboot it with a transplant of the patient’s own bone marrow and wait for MS to regenerate.
“We thought we might be able to intercept one of the signals that initiates the disease and that would then give us a clue on how to treat it,” Freedman said. He jokes that they “had, in effect, failed because the disease never came back. No one expected to see zero disease activity after the transplant.”
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I remember reading about how multiple sclerosis was treated in the 1980s, when bassist Ronnie Lane (of Small Faces / Faces fame) talked about having to be injected with serum make from snake venowm, and how he said it made him feel like nerves were on fire. I'm really glad this breakthrough happened to alleviate so much suffering and maybe get the world a cure. 