Northside Hospital to expand stem cell therapy for cancer treatment
Northside Hospital, considered among the best hospitals in the US, is growing their practice of giving stem cell therapy to cancer patients. This program is giving more treatment for patients with Acute Lymphoid Leukemia and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Moreover, the latest research shows that stem cell therapy has more positive results for both of these cancers. Indeed, Scott Solomon confirmed that more patients are alive after months or years of this treatment.
Actually, Medical practitioners will take mesenchymal stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow. Next they reinject these stem cells into the patient near damaged tissue, consequently the treatment charges growth factors to begin the healing process.
What is more, Northside Hospital Cancer Institute has been recognized nationally for stem cell transplantation and the treatment of leukemia in particular. They also treat Multiple Myeloma and participate in clinical trials for patients with acute myeloid leukemia.
Despite the obstacles for medical practitioners and the patients they seek to serve, the FDA did approve stem cell therapy for arthritis and neuropathy. Besides, there are more than 200 clinical trials that you can find on clinicaltrials.org at this moment. Furthermore, there is research and data from many other clinical trials that prove the safety and efficacy of this therapy.