介绍:
Cancer treatment for MS patients gives 'remarkable' results
Transplant v./n. 移植 –CET4
Paralyzed adj. 瘫痪的；麻痹的 –TEM4
Incurable adj. 不能治愈的；无可救药的 –TEM4
Neurological adj. 神经病学的 –TEM8
Diagnose v. 诊断 –CET4
Immune adj. 免疫的 –CET4
UK doctors in Sheffield say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing "remarkable" improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer.
About 20 patients have received bone marrow transplants using their own stem cells. Some patients who were paralysed have been able to walk again.
Prof Basil Sharrack, of Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital, said: "To have a treatment which can potentially reverse disability is really a majorvachievement."
Around100,000 people in the UK have MS, an incurable neurological condition. Most patients are diagnosed in their 20s and 30s. The disease causes the immune system to attack the lining of nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
