I completely understand what you are saying and I seriously considered taking my 5 year old son to Germany to have stem cell treatment - he has dilated cardiomyopathy and may need a heart transplant at some point - I was and still am desperate. So what has stopped me? Well a few reasons really. But ultimately this - Stem cells are ultimate cells that can turn into any other kind of cells - but what if they caught onto bad cells, abnormal cells could they start to generate more of those cells? And we all know what abnormal growths can be. The problem is we can't inject the cells and say "in you go boys" then say "out you come boys you have done your job now" how do we switch them off? so until they have had thorough adult stem cells trials on humans, and they are happening over here in the UK – so we are on our way, then we can't be convinced that we won't just be making matters worse by having them injected – we could be creating more problems. I feel I need to wait as long as I can before I consider going ahead with stem cells for John. We have had to make life and death decisions for John and I never ever forgive myself if I decided to opt for stem cells and as a result he got cancer in doing so and this is a real possibility.
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I completely understand what you are saying and I seriously considered taking my 5 year old son to Germany to have stem cell treatment - he has dilated cardiomyopathy and may need a heart transplant at some point - I was and still am desperate. So what has stopped me? Well a few reasons really. But ultimately this - Stem cells are ultimate cells that can turn into any other kind of cells - but what if they caught onto bad cells, abnormal cells could they start to generate more of those cells? And we all know what abnormal growths can be. The problem is we can't inject the cells and say "in you go boys" then say "out you come boys you have done your job now" how do we switch them off? so until they have had thorough adult stem cells trials on humans, and they are happening over here in the UK – so we are on our way, then we can't be convinced that we won't just be making matters worse by having them injected – we could be creating more problems. I feel I need to wait as long as I can before I consider going ahead with stem cells for John. We have had to make life and death decisions for John and I never ever forgive myself if I decided to opt for stem cells and as a result he got cancer in doing so and this is a real possibility.