StemCell Therapy

The results of a quick and dirty research project on stem cell research studies.....

If I Google "stem cell clinical trials", I get several hundred thousand results... So, changing to "clinical trials stem cell COPD", I come up with several sites that claim to be experiencing fabulous success in stem cell therapy for COPD patients. Further study of these sites reveals that they all make a point that their procedures are not approved by the FDA, and that the only verifiable positive results are anecdotal, that is, from the statements of their own patients. All well and good, if the statements are true, and if the reports of their patients are not just the result of the placebo effect brought on by their desperate hope that the trials did in fact work.

In addition to these sites, there is one from the American Lung Association with quite a bit of information on the possibilities of stem cell therapy. Included in the ALA site is a link to:

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/

which takes me to a listing of the hundreds of clinical trials currently under consideration, recruiting, or underway. There are also a few that have been completed. I urge you to take a look at the site. Once there, I searched for stem cells COPD, and came up with a list of 18 trials in various stages, most of which actually had something to do with COPD.

On the surface, the listing appeared to be just that; the information for various institutions that are seriously looking into the value of stem cells in the treatment of lung disease. And, hopefully, most of them are legitimate.

So, reading through the list, it appears that there are some trials going on, most of them in the US, having to do with stem cell therapy for COPD. However, further digging in at least a couple of the sites revealed the following:

One of the companies, on its web site, appears to me to claim that they are presently administering stem cell treatments, and that they have had success in relieving the symptoms and (at least so far), improving the prognosis of COPD patients. Again to me, that casts a bit of a cloud on the validity of the supposed trial.

Another of the companies talks a lot about various stem cell treatments, but does not mention anything related to COPD. So far, so good...but then, there it was! The information that they have a clinic in Mexico that deals in stem cell therapy for COPD.

Believe me when I say that nothing would make me happier than to discover that someone, somewhere, was having success in healing COPD patients, whether it was from stem cells or from dancing around them dressed in feathers. I fully realize the desperation of someone with a chronic disease. I have been there. However, I totally detest anyone who would take advantage of that desperation to extract money from the patients or their families.

Please be careful.

Uncle Jim

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Stem Cell Therapy for COPD

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