Stem cell therapy for cancer


Stem cells have proved to be a revolutionary development in the field of medical science. These stem cells, which are the building blocks of our body, possess regenerative and repairing characteristics. These stem cells have the potential to repair and cure diseases, injuries and dysfunctions. This regenerating process involves exchanging the damaged and beyond repair cells of a specific damaged organ of the body by transplanting stem cells, which multiply themselves to create more reparative stem cells. This process of transplantation of stem cells is termed as stem cell therapy. This process is very efficient and accurate. Researchers have further acknowledged its abilities to cure cancer. Stem cell therapy for cancer healing has been found to give impressive results. Transplantation of stem cells restore the damaged stem cells of the body that are destroyed by chemotherapy and other processes that are used for curing of cancer. 


Normally, cancer stem cell transplants don't help the body in a normal way. They mostly enhance the healing powers of the body which is severely damaged by chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They are transplanted in the body to serve the purpose of forming blood cells, which replace the older blood cells, that are incapable of recovering the damage from cancer treatments. In some cases, like in multiple myeloma and a few cases of leukemia, this treatment works directly. This process is helped by the occurrence of an effect termed as Graft-versus-tumor which shows itself after after allogeneic transplants. When the white blood cells from a donor starts attacking all the cancer cells present in the body, after heavy exposure from the treatments of cancer, Graft-versus-tumor occur. This effect increases the chances of success in the treatment of cancer. Stem cell therapy thus, has proved its worth in this field and is a trusted cure for cancer in various ways.

Bone marrow transplant
Stems cell transplants are basically bone marrow transplants which is a complex procedure used for treatment of cancer. Specifics types of cancer like leukemia, multiple myeloma and some cases of lymphoma require to be treated with a bone marrow transplant. Doctors have even been known for using stem cell transplants for some cases of blood diseases. In this process, stem cells collected from the donor's bone marrow are transplanted into the bone marrow of the patient, hence the name, bone marrow transplant. Recently, because of latest developments of the process, stem cells are collected from the blood instead of the bone marrow of the donor, which is why it is now more commonly known as stem cell transplant or stem cell therapy.

Bone marrow is basically the soft tissue found in the bones that produces stem cells which generate different blood cells. These blood cells take on special functions on the body and can transform in several different types of cells, like bone marrow cells, or heart tissue. This stem cells present in the bone marrow, help in the healing of damaged cells with specific functions. This is very important in the treatment of cancer, as the patient has a lot of damaged tissues which cannot be recovered by the damaged stem cells. Bone marrow consists of hematopoietic stem cells, which in certain cases if cancer cannot develop normally. In this case, the body requires new stem cells, which will help it in production of new blood cells that will obtain different special functions in the body.

Stem cell therapy has until now, proved itself to be a major improvement in the success of cancer treatment. Further research is in progress for more developments in treatment with the use of stem cells. Stem cell therapy has offered cancer patients a new hope in a saddening ailment like cancer and gifted the doctors with new abilities to fight cancer.

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