BY DALSON CHEN, WINDSOR STAR MAY 3, 2010 9:43 AM
WINDSOR, Ont. — Ottawa doctors, who claim a new medical technique can cause a “very long-lasting remission,” are giving hope to multiple sclerosis patients.
“The inflammatory nature of the disease has virtually ceased in everyone who has received this transplant,” said neurologist Dr. Mark Freedman, who led the study with bone marrow transplant specialist Dr. Harold Atkins.
Freedman said he’s hesitant to say that the transplant of bone marrow stem cells can “cure” multiple sclerosis.
“I hate to use the C-word … but we’ve induced a very long-lasting remission,” he said.
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