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22 Mar 2018, 11:05 am
An important breakthrough shows how one private patient was determined to give an important test trial a go.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt ... _sclerosis
The results of an international trial show stem cell transplants can vastly improve the lives of some people with multiple sclerosis.
The gruelling treatment involves wiping out a patient's faulty immune system with drugs used to treat cancer - and then rebuilding it using stem cell transplants.
The BBC's Caroline Wyatt, who was deemed unsuitable for a trial in the UK, paid for a stem cell transplant in Mexico. 
