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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 Wendy, 36, and Brian, 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."
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StemCells subscribers may also be interested in these sites:
Children's Neurobiological Solutions
http://www.CNSfoundation.org/
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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