Stem Cell Treatment: Changing The Way Diseases Are Treated

Stem cell has become the best choice to treat many diseases. With reduced

percentages of risks and the benefits gained is making a medical practitioner to

go to this therapy. This therapy has great potential to change the way the

diseases are being treated up till now and is definitely helping to alleviate the

pain caused by the diseases. The treatment covers a wide area - a number of

stem cell treatment are currently known but only few of them are actually

practiced as the rest are not cost effective or are in experimental phase.

Stem Cell Treatment Areas

Currently the following treatments are being used widely. These treatments are

accepted worldwide and are practiced everywhere in the world.

Acute Leukemia

Chronic Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Hematopoietic Disorders

Immune System Disorders

Malignancies

Lymphoproliferative Disorders

Metabolic Disorders

The above categories themselves are differentiated into many types. Overall the

treatment has a wide area of practice.

The areas in which experiments are being made include:

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Crohn's Disease

Neural Birth Defects

Advancements in stem cell treatment in India also have leaded the path to the

solution of infertility. Now due to the utilization of stem cells, the fertility can be

induced in the impotent couples.

Animal Models

Like every clinical trial, animals are the testing models for any new drug or

therapy. This has resulted in the treatment of diseases in animals as well. Since

every test is first done on the animals, thus all the possible available treatments

can additionally be used to cure animals. Sometimes the results are not same as

the physiology of animal and human differs at some levels.

Problems Associated With Stem Cell Treatment

The use of stem cell is becoming an ethical issue. The cells taken from

human embryo is not getting good reviews from many researchers. This is

demoralizing as any part of the embryo refers to the new born baby and is

thus unacceptable. In vitro fertilization is however legally allowed.

A single stem cell is not capable of treating a multitude of diseases.

Sometimes other therapies like medication, diet, physical therapy is

needed along with the stem cell treatment to lessen the severity of the

diseases.

The cells are though obtained from the patient's body but it may get

contaminated due to improper storage condition. Such cells will thus be

causing other diseases and the infection risk may increase.

Many times the successful experiments or clinical trials on animals may

not show the same results in humans.

Strict disciplinary rules and guidelines are needed to be followed before

applying or practicing these treatments on humans. The complete

procedure and the other requirements are needed to be followed must.

Future of Stem Cell Treatment in India

From a blood disorder to the neurologic problem, stem cell is offering its role in

almost most of the diseases especially all the degenerative diseases are easily

treated by stem cells. It can be hoped that the future will bring much ease in the

treatment procedures and more diseases will also be managed by the same

therapy.

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