The
Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports on the encouraging
story of Dixie Sisk who after years of agonizing cancer treatment for her
multiple myeloma finally resorted to adult stem cell therapy. Unlike
embryonic stem cell research (which requires the destruction of human embryos
and has not met with clinical success in medical treatments) adult stem cell
research is ethical and has frequently shown real-world results.
Excerpt:
Dixie Sisk was almost 70 when she
became a new woman.
After fighting cancer for 11 years, enduring 89 radiation
treatments and surviving repeated rounds of chemotherapy, the Mercer County
mother and grandmother decided it was time to try a controversial, cutting-edge
treatment that could give her a chance at living cancer-free.
Doctors were skeptical of her chance for success, but Sisk
agreed to a stem cell transplant in hopes of seeing her grandchildren grow up.
“I’ve got two grandsons, a 6-year-old and a 14-year-old.
When I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, all the doctors said they could
give me was a band-aid. A band-aid doesn’t cover much,” she said.
Her cells were harvested from her own body, so Sisk never
had to wait for a match or worry whether federal guidelines would allow
research on the line of cells she needed.
For more
exciting stories of adult stem cell successes check the AdvanceUSA adult stem cell page.