Systemic Scleroderma & LDN?

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Anyone heard of LDN helping this?Destiny" () Hamilton" <Go_Fitz@...> wrote: StemCells From: " () Hamilton" <Go_Fitz@...>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:44:31 -0000Subject: [stemCells] Systemic Scleroderma & SCs (Search the group for more on this terrible disease). Stem cell hope for Scots girl slowly turning into stone Jul 30 2008 A FAMILY are praying research will save their girl from an incurable disease that is turning her to stone.

Hope Barrie, 11, has a rare condition which is causing her skin to tighten and harden. Experts say it is like patients are "being turned to stone" as their body produces too much collagen. The acute form of systemic scleroderma can spread to the organs, leaving Hope, of Tarbolton, Ayrshire, facing a race against time to find a cure. Now the youngster and her parents , 36, and , 38, are praying stem cell techniques being pioneered in the US could save Hope from her torment. Doctors told Hope last August she was one of the less that 100 people in the UK to have the disease. A US case using the patient's own stem cells led to one girl being transformed within six months of treatment. Hope, who gets weekly chemotherapy, said: "I loved playing the violin and it would be amazing to start playing again." http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/07/30/stem-cell- hope-for-scots-girl-slowly-turning-into-stone-86908-20676504/