Comments on: I don’t understand how blood stem cells work as an alternative medicine for cancer? http://www.alternativemedicineanswers.com/blog/alternative-types-of-medicine/i-dont-understand-how-blood-stem-cells-work-as-an-alternative-medicine-for-cancer-2 Healing Naturally Through Alternatives Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gary Y http://www.alternativemedicineanswers.com/blog/alternative-types-of-medicine/i-dont-understand-how-blood-stem-cells-work-as-an-alternative-medicine-for-cancer-2/comment-page-1#comment-12338 Gary Y Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:00:59 +0000 http://www.alternativemedicineanswers.com/blog/alternative-types-of-medicine/i-dont-understand-how-blood-stem-cells-work-as-an-alternative-medicine-for-cancer-2#comment-12338 There is a lot of stem cell quackery out there at the moment, but the truth is right now there are no legitimate stem cell therapies outside of research protocols. These scam artists only want your money, they don't care about exploiting cancer patients. Any success your South Korean doctor claims is most probably due to the chemo. Please read this informative article: "Be Wary of Stem Cell Pseudoscience" http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=73 And: "A Special Message for Cancer Patients Seeking "Alternative" Treatments": http://www.quackwatch.com/00AboutQuackwatch/altseek.html Edit: correction, I should have written "right now there are no legitimate stem cell therapies outside of research protocols, except for bone marrow or umbilical cord blood stem cells for conditions like leukemia and lymphoma, after chemotherapy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Current_treatments http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/health.asp Thanks Midnightmoon.<br><b>References : </b><br> There is a lot of stem cell quackery out there at the moment, but the truth is right now there are no legitimate stem cell therapies outside of research protocols. These scam artists only want your money, they don’t care about exploiting cancer patients.

Any success your South Korean doctor claims is most probably due to the chemo.

Please read this informative article:
"Be Wary of Stem Cell Pseudoscience"
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=73

And:
"A Special Message for Cancer Patients Seeking "Alternative" Treatments":
http://www.quackwatch.com/00AboutQuackwatch/altseek.html

Edit: correction, I should have written "right now there are no legitimate stem cell therapies outside of research protocols, except for bone marrow or umbilical cord blood stem cells for conditions like leukemia and lymphoma, after chemotherapy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Current_treatments
http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/health.asp

Thanks Midnightmoon.
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]]> By: Henry http://www.alternativemedicineanswers.com/blog/alternative-types-of-medicine/i-dont-understand-how-blood-stem-cells-work-as-an-alternative-medicine-for-cancer-2/comment-page-1#comment-12337 Henry Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:10:59 +0000 http://www.alternativemedicineanswers.com/blog/alternative-types-of-medicine/i-dont-understand-how-blood-stem-cells-work-as-an-alternative-medicine-for-cancer-2#comment-12337 Its only purpose is to create new healthy cells since cancer destroys the other cells.<br><b>References : </b><br> Its only purpose is to create new healthy cells since cancer destroys the other cells.
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