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The Greatest Stem-Cell Story Never Told

Number of Treatments or Cures Using Embryonic Stem Cells: 0

Number of Treatments or Cures Using Adult Stem Cells:1 72

Auto-Immune Diseases

1. Systemic Lupus
2. Sjogren’s Syndrome
3. Myasthenia
4. Autoimmune Cytopenia
5. Scleromyxedema
6. Scleroderma
7. Crohn’s Disease
8. Behcet’s Disease
9. Rheumatoid Arthritis
10. Juvenile Arthritis
11. Multiple Sclerosis
12. Polychondritis
13. Systemic Vasculitis
14. Alopecia Universalis
15. Buerger’s Disease

Cancers:

16. Brain Cancer
17. Retinoblastoma
18. Ovarian Cancer
19. Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
20. Testicular Cancer
21. Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma
22. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
23. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
24. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
25. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
26. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
27. Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
28. Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
29. Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
30. Multiple Myeloma
31. Myelodysplasia
32. Breast Cancer
33. Neuroblastoma
34. Renal Cell Carcinoma
35. Various Solid Tumors
36. Soft Tissue Sarcoma
37. Ewing’s Sarcoma
38. Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
39. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
40. POEMS syndrome
41. Myelofibrosis

Cardiovascular

42. Acute Heart Damage
43. Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

Ocular

44. Corneal regeneration

Immunodeficiencies

45. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome
46. X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
47. X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome

Neural Degenerative Diseases and Injuries

48. Parkinson’s Disease
49. Spinal Cord Injury
50. Stroke Damage

Anemias and Other Blood Conditions

51. Sickle Cell Anemia
52. Sideroblastic Anemia
53. Aplastic Anemia
54. Red Cell Aplasia
55. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
56. Thalassemia
57. Primary Amyloidosis
58. Diamond Blackfan Anemia
59. Fanconi’s Anemia
60. Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection

Wounds and Injuries

61. Limb Gangrene
62. Surface Wound Healing
63. Jawbone Replacement
64. Skull Bone Repair

Other Metabolic Disorders

65. Hurler’s Syndrome
66. Osteogenesis Imperfecta
67. Krabbe Leukodystrophy
68. Osteopetrosis
69. Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy

Liver Disease

70. Chronic Liver Failure
71. Liver Cirrhosis

Bladder Disease

72. End-Stage Bladder Disease

Footnotes:
1

Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics Website, http://stemcellresearch.org/facts/asc-refs.pdf (accessed November 7, 2006).

See also Kairos Journal article, "Amazing Cures with Adult Stem Cells."