Diseases Treated Using Adult Stem
Cells and Embryonic Stem Cells
By Jim Day
Below is a list of diseases and maladies treated using adult stem cells
followed by diseases and maladies treated using embryonic stem cells. This
information was 
obtained
from the Do No Harm: Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics web site www.stemcellresearch.org.
Do No Harm is located in Washington, DC and can be
reached by calling 202-347-6840. Do No Harm provided the following references
for the list below: The Facts - Prentice, D. Adult
Stem Cells Appendix K in Monitoring
Stem Cell Research: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics (Washington,
DC: Government Printing Office, 2004), 309-346. The Facts - Addendum, October 2004.
It
is important to note that the below list of diseases and maladies treated with
adult stem cells is not complete as this report was published in 2004. The list
of treatments using embryonic stem cells however, is up to date.
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Diseases and Maladies
Treated Using Adult Stem Cells
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| Cancers: |
Auto-Immune Disease: |
Spinal Cord Injury
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| Brain Cancer |
Multiple Sclerosis
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Stroke Damage |
| Retinoblastoma |
Crohn's Disease |
Anemias/Blood
Conditions
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| Ovarian Cancer |
Scleromyxedema
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Sickle Cell Anemia
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| Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
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Rheumatoid Arthritis |
Sideroblastic
Anemia
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| Testicular Cancer |
Juvenile Arthritis |
Aplastic Anemia
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| Tumors Abdominal Organs Lymphoma |
Systemic Lupus |
Amegakaryocytic
Thrombocytopenia
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| Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma |
Polychondritis
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Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection
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| Hodgkin’s Lymphoma |
Sjogren's Syndrome
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Fanconi's Anemia
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| Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia |
Behcet's Disease
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Diamond Blackfan
Anemia
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Acute Myelogenous
Leukemia
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Myasthenia
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Thalassemia Major
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Chronic Myelogenous
Leukemia
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Autoimmune Cytopenia
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Red Cell Aplasia
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Juvenile Myelomonocytic
Leukemia
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Systemic Vasculitis
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Primary Amyloidosis
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Cancer of the Lymph Nodes:
Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
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Alopecia Universalis
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Wounds/Injuries: |
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Multiple Myeloma
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Cardiovascular |
Limb Gangrene |
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Myelodysplasia
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Heart Damage |
Surface Wound Healing |
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Breast Cancer
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Ocular: |
Jawbone Replacement |
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Neuroblastoma
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Corneal Regeneration |
Skull Bone Repair |
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Renal Cell Carcinoma
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Immunodeficiencies:
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Other
Metabolic Disorders: |
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Various Solid Tumors
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X-Linked Hyper Immunoglobuline-M
Syndrome
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Osteogenesis
Imperfecta |
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Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Syndrome
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Sandhoff
Disease |
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Waldenstrom’s
Macroglobulinemia
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X-linked Lymphoproliferative
Syndrome
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Hurler’s Syndrome |
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Hemophagocytic
Lymphohistiocytosis
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Neural Degenerative diseases/injuries
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Krabbe Leukodystrophy
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POEMS Syndrome
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Parkinson’s Disease
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Osteopetrosis |
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Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy |
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Diseases and Maladies
Treated Using Embryonic Stem Cells...
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None!
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