Comments on: anyone heard of any cure for type 1 diabetes (yeh aside from insulin)?

By: whensquintsattack

whensquintsattack — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:29:59 +0000

Well you can get a full pancreatic transplant (which is normally done as well as a kidney transplant) or you can get an Islet Cell/Stem Cell transplant, but none of these are really mainstream as of yet. They all require drugs that would suppress the immune system so the organs/cells wouldn’t be rejected. In years to come they’re hoping to be able to cure it by the islet/stem cell transplant where the cells would be coated with Teflon or the like so the immune system couldn’t destroy them, but this is a few years away.

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By: Z

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:20:59 +0000

no cure, just control. oh wait, there is surgery. if one is lucky, there is pancreas transplant but needed donor to do so which is the main problem. each of us has only one pancreas.
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By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:57:59 +0000

There is a ton or research but as of right now the only promising thing is stem cell research.
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By: David

David — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:59 +0000

nothing available .
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By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:33:59 +0000

There is a transplant they have tried, transplanting the Islets of Langerhans, but this is not a cure. It's a treatment. You would have to go through all the issues of a transplant patient with a suppressed immune system; drug costs, drug side-effects, etc.
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