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Mrs_hart
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Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

CHICAGO - For all of her 20s, when Edjuana Ross should have been relishing the thrill of early adulthood, she was instead in and out of hospitals, battling a disease that attacked her skin, brain and heart.

Now, at 33, she has her life back, thanks to a stem-cell transplant from her own bone marrow, a drastic, experimental treatment that could be promising for patients with severe lupus.

Ross' illness is in remission for the first time since her diagnosis shortly after high school graduation.

"I'm just trying to get used to being well, and it's a very weird feeling," Ross said.

The Park Forest, Ill., woman is among 48 patients with severe lupus who had the treatment at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Thirty-three patients have had no disease symptoms for up to more than seven years following their transplants, said Northwestern's Dr. Richard Burt, who led the study.

Six patients died from causes unrelated to the treatment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060131/ap_on_he_me/lupus_stem_cells;_ylt=An.LFUL02D_2_Jw6ROr4EeIDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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Serenasailor
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Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:10 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Thats Great News!
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Abm
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Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

This GREAT news. But it leaves me with a bittersweet feeling.

One of my younger cousins died via complications from Lupus. He contracted the disease when he was only 12. And he died when he was 22.

Poor kid never really had a chance to enjoy his life. :-(

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