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Research on Stem Cell Treatments Abroad
If you have done any research on stem cell treatments abroad, you will undoubtedly read negative articles like
this one on CNN from the mainstream media saying these companies are promising cures and are preying on the desperate, that these companies are selling "snake oil" Nothing could be further from the truth.
The stem cell companies and stem cell doctors that are part of the
Repair Stem Cell Institute offer patients a good chance at an improvement in the patient's quality of life- they don't offer nor promise cures. Patients going to these stem cell therapy treatment centers abroad know this.
Unfortunately, the United States and their FDA don't give these patients any other options. Are they able to use their own stem cells to help their multiple sclerosis or heart disease- Stem Cells that have been proven safe in thousands of studies? No. What is one to do then? These patients must go abroad for the only treatment that can help their disease or condition.
Here is a sampling of what some of these companies affiliated with the Repair Stem Cell Institute tell their patients:
From Stem Cells China:
It's not a cure. It's about quality of life. Every day I see inquiries begin like this: "Can stem cells cure...?" Everyone should know the answer to that one right away. No. No known therapy utilizing stem cells can cure any medical condition. Not one.
A cure would rewrite the broken code of your genome. A cure would rewind the debilitating progression of a neuro-degenerative disease to the moment before onset. A cure would fix all the wrongs of a baby's challenged birth. We eagerly await the development of cures and their accessibility to patients in need.
So why are people receiving stem cell therapy today? Therapies involving adult stem cells today are providing quality of life improvements for many patients. It's no cure. Just as painkillers are not a cure for pain. They improve our quality of life if we feel pain.But who would deny that painkillers are still worthwhile for extreme pain? Many doctors in the West are saying that they don't have enough proof that stem cells are improving quality of life for patients. In the meantime, patients are busy coming to China and China's stem cell clinics are busy offering the chance for quality of life improvements where none else would exist. We encourage you to explore the therapies being offered today.
From Dr. Shimon Slavin, Israel, helping people like
Louis Zylstra and
Arndt RoehligHowever, we have some positive and most encouraging evidence that the cells we inject may be of benefit, especially as evidenced in some patients with multiple sclerosis as well as based on the first patient we treated with spinal injury that seemed to have somewhat improved. The good news is that there are no side effects at all so there is no risk and nothing to lose (except money…). I would like to stress that since we are in very early stages of our research, nothing can be said about the clinical efficacy of our approach.
However, on the other hand, I do understand that patients in need cannot wait for all the answers to be solved and this is why we agree to offer experimental procedures for patients that understand the experimental nature of our program and consent to try and explore new treatment options.From Dr. Roberto Fernandez Vina-- For doctors who say that current stem cell therapies are "unproven," Dr. Fernandez Viña has the following response:
"How many patients must to be treated to say this is a cure? How many patients must die waiting for the word "cure?" A lot of diseases are not totally cured with drugs but the laboratories talk about curing (HIV, Tuberculosis and a lot of malignant deseases). They say that the drugs "cure" but in reality the drugs improve the quality of life. Stem cells "cure" in the same sense. If a person is dying of diabetes and we improve the prognosis and he no longer needs insulin injections, we increase the C peptide, decrease the HbA1c, decrease protein in the urine, decrease the risk of amputation or kidney failure, in my book that is a "cure."From
Richard Humphries, with multiple sclerosis and a stem cell recipient from Cell Medicine in Costa Rica:
I’m case study #1 in the paper (Multiple Sclerosis Study) just released
and have had two stem cell treatments in Costa Rica where they promise nothing but deliver wonderful results. Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis patients can’t wait on historical data. Time is not on our side but stem cells improved my quality of life and the follow up MRI looks excellent.
From the X cell Center in Germany:
Even if not all of the interactions have been conclusively researched to date, the status of the current medical insights has indeed reached a level that allows the non- hazardous treatment with adult stem cells and puts medical professionals in a position to assume responsibility for its use.
Given the proven treatment success of regenerative medicine, the question of whether more research is needed prior to therapeutic use has already been answered.
Those who nevertheless demand stem cell therapy be postponed until we know more about it are taking away patients’ rights to make their own decisions as they search for medical solutions – for the kind of help stem cell therapy does offer.