Toddler saved by frozen stem cells from Japan
Last updated at 09:47am on 6th February 2008
A toddler with a rare form of cancer has been saved after she became
only the second person in Britain to be given a transplant using
frozen stem cells.
Two-year-old Sorrel Mason, from Great Wratting in Suffolk, was given
only a 30 per cent chance of survival after being diagnosed with
acute myeloid leukaemia.
Millions of stem cell samples across the world were checked after no
match was found in Europe. Doctors eventually found a partial match
from stem cells taken from an umbilical cord frozen in Tokyo.
Sorrel made a complete recovery after undergoing treatment with the
stem cells from Japan at a Bristol children's hospital last year.
Today Sorrel's mother, Samantha Mason, 38, thanked doctors today
for "pulling off a miracle".
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Mrs Mason who runs a garden centre with her husband Robert
said: "Sorrel would be dead now if she had been left untreated.
"She had a rare form of acute myeloid leukaemia, which is rare in
itself. The outlook was very bleak as there was no bone marrow which
had even a close resemblance to Sorrel's.
"The stem cells frozen in Japan were the only match in the world
which could have been used. They were the most terrifying months our
family could live with, but the doctors pulled off a miracle for us.
"I was so frightened of catching an infection I would cross the road
when I heard someone cough."
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StemCells subscribers may also be interested in these sites:
Children's Neurobiological Solutions
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Cord Blood Registry
http://www.CordBlood.com/at.cgi?a=150123
The CNS Healing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNS_Healing
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