Stem cell treatment saves liver cancer patients - Telegraph
Extract:
"Patients treated for advanced liver cancer have grown new liver cells after being injected with stem cells taken from their hips.
Six out of eight patients are still alive two years later with fully functioning livers. The treatment, given in Germany, brings hope for liver patients.
Surgeons at the University of Dusseldorf took bone marrow stem cells from the hips of patients with advanced liver cancer and injected then into the healthy parts of the liver. "
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
Stem cell treatment has helped liver cancer patients in Germany.
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bone marrow,
liver cancer,
Stem cells,
surgeons
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