However, in multiple myeloma and some types of leukemia, the stem cell transplant may work against cancer directly. Instead, they help you recover your body's ability to produce stem cells after treatment with very high doses of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or both. Stem cell transplants do not usually work against cancer directly. How stem cell transplants work against cancer To learn more about how blood-forming stem cells are matched, see Blood-Forming Stem Cell Transplants. To reduce possible side effects and improve the chances that an allogeneic transplant will work, the donor’s blood-forming stem cells must match yours in certain ways. syngeneic, which means the stem cells come from your identical twin, if you have one.The donor may be a blood relative but can also be someone who is not related. allogeneic, which means the stem cells come from someone else.autologous, which means the stem cells come from you, the patient.The blood-forming stem cells that are used in transplants can come from the bone marrow, bloodstream, or umbilical cord. Once they enter your bloodstream, the stem cells travel to the bone marrow, where they take the place of the cells that were destroyed by treatment. We do not recommend any patient undergo these treatments, as there is no proof they work and they can lead to complete loss of vision.In a stem cell transplant, you receive healthy blood-forming stem cells through a needle in your vein. ![]() Instead, it is more likely they will become blood or fat cells. This is because these cells, taken from the blood or fat, have not been reprogrammed to form eye cells. These ‘treatments’ can have incredibly harmful side effects and cause complete blindness. These cells are then injected into the patient’s eye. These clinics often rave about using the patient’s own cells (from blood or fat) and extracting stem cells. ![]() However, this does not stop some clinics from offering it as a ‘treatment’. Unlicensed stem cell clinicsĬurrently, stem cell therapy is not licensed for use as a treatment for AMD. Although firstly it needs to be proven to be safe and effective. We hope that in the future, stem cell therapy may be more widely available to patients. However, the results for those who have received stem cell therapy do seem very promising. All these studies are in very early stages. Research is also underway in America for patients with dry AMD. Most notably, the London Project to Cure Blindness has tested stem cell therapy in patients with wet AMD. Clinical trials are underway both in the UK and abroad. This is a promising area of research for many diseases including macular disease.Ĭurrent research is looking at stem cell therapy for patients with vision loss due to wet or dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Stem cell therapy is the use of stem cells to replace dead or damaged cells in the body. Stem cells may be able to grow and replace lost or damaged cells in the eye that are responsible for vision loss in macular conditions. Scientists are hopeful that stem cells, and stem cell therapy may be able to play an important role to treat macular disease. ![]() Researchers have also found ways of taking normal human cells, such as skin cells and turning them back into stem cells to become other cell types. These cells have the special ability of being able to form many different cell types. Stem cells are cells that are naturally found in the body.
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