Woman diagnosed with MS visits Colorado for stem cell transplant

“Transplant is sort of a higher risk treatment, but it has a higher chance as well of putting patients into durable remission from their disease process,” Dr. Richard Nash, her transplant physician from Colorado Blood Cancer Institute, said.

Nash says they collected and stored her stem cells, administered chemotherapy, then infused her own stem cells back into her bloodstream where they migrated to the bone marrow and replicated into healthy blood cells.

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