Pioneering treatment has allowed wheelchair-bound patients to run again Patient given high dose of chemotherapy to wipe out faulty immune system Therapy then uses person's own stem cells to fight the devastating disease It may be the first ever treatment tosuccessfullyreverse symptoms of MS
By Fiona Macrae for the Daily Mail
Published: 13:27 EST, 1 March 2015 | Updated: 02:54 EST, 2 March 2015
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Britons left wheelchair-bound by multiple sclerosis can walk, run and even dance again after being given a pioneering stem cell treatment.
Doctors have described the recoveries as miraculous, while patients say they have been given their lives back.
The treatment uses a patients own stem cells the bodys master cells to fight the disease.
Recovery: MS sufferer Holly Drewerybecame wheelchair-bound after the birth of daughter Isla, but thanks tothe stem cell transplant shecan dance, run and chase after Isla in the park
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MS stem cell treatment hailed 'miraculous' as patients make dramatic recovery