CASE REPORT - Brain and spinal tumors develop in boy treated with fetal stem cell therapy

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Case Report Of A Brain And Spinal Tumor Following Human Fetal Stem Cell Therapy

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2009) — A case report published in PLoS

Medicine, describes a rare side effect of human fetal stem cell

therapy. Ninette Amariglio and Gideon Rechavi from the Sheba Medical

Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, and colleagues report the case of a boy with

a rare genetic disease, Ataxia Telangiectasia, who underwent human

fetal stem cell therapy at an unrelated clinic in Moscow and who, four

years after the therapy began, was shown to have abnormal growths in

his brain and spinal cord.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217212253.htm

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