By UCH, US Varsities Discover Cure for Sickle Cell Anaemia
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Five million sickle cell patients in Nigeria and other African countries can be saved as the University of Ibadan partners with the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA and Loyola.
This is because Chicago have discovered a permanent cure for the terminal disease.
This new treatment for the deadly disease, according to the Professor of Medicine, Victor Gordeuk, who is the Director, Sickle Cell Centre, University of Illinois is done through bone marrow transplant and is less risky. This was revealed at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, after a three-day brainstorming session with other experts in the teaching hospital. . The experts flanked by the Chief Medical Director, UCH, Prof. Temitope Alonge, Dr. Titilola Akingbola, an haematologist and Dr. Foluke Fasola, said this stem cell transplant is a standard procedure for the treatment of many blood cancers in both adult and children. He said: “with this chemotherapy-free transplant, we are curing adults with sickle cell disease, and we see that their quality of life improves fast within just one month of the transplant. “About 90 per cent of the approximately 450 patients who have received stem cell transplants for sickle cell disease have been children. “Adults with sickle cell disease can now be cured without chemotherapy. The main barrier that has stood in the way for them for so long. Our data provide more support that this therapy is safe and effective. . The CMD, Prof. Alonge described sickle cell as a disease of bone crisis which the patient suffers from head to toe. Also Read: India’s Forex Reserves Climb to $698.95 BillionDiscover more from Breaking News
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