For people suffering from the debilitating effects of many sclerosis, a disease that ravages the nervous system, there is new hope in the form of a used treatment for cancer and related disorders. Is the process of using the patient's stem cells to restore function in patients whose immune system is damaged or defective? Cells are removed from the patient, "purified" and frozen for storage. Meanwhile, the patient receives mild chemotherapy to stop the defective immune system.

The patient then sends their stem cells into the body where they grow and "reboot" the immune system to healthy, normal function. This procedure has been practiced in Europe and other parts of the world for many years with great success. Currently, the only FDA-approved treatment for many sclerosis is a drug. The first drug to treat MS became available in 1993. Since then, more than a dozen other drugs have been approved for general use. Some of these drugs include an injectable interferon beta that was used by a cancer patient in the 1980s and his HIV patient in the early 1990s.
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