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The Children Spared Chemotherapy


Health & Wellness  (tags: health, children, babies, chemotherapy, disease, illness, medicine, prevention, protection, risks, safety, treatment, research )

Dee
- 96 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Thirteen of 16 children who received a bone marrow transplant using a new antibody treatment rather than chemotherapy have survived. Three of the families describe the experience.
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Dee C. (514)
Wednesday September 2, 2009, 6:30 pm
"Kasey was born with a serious immune deficiency which affected his gut. Fostered from the age of four months old, little was known about his genetic history, until tests diagnosed him at age four."

"He had to be fed intravenously, and in the first five years of his life was in and out of hospital. He was too ill to receive the conventional chemotherapy-based transplant, so doctors recommended the antibody treatment.

His foster mother Brigitte Cadd says she was told few children with the condition live beyond the first year."

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Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (257)
Friday September 4, 2009, 10:15 am
Great... that they are spared from these form of treatment
 

Cheree Million (133)
Wednesday September 9, 2009, 8:13 am
Noted. Thanks
 
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