My husband was searching about the John Hopkins University Hospital site one night, and came across this piece on chemotherapy as a treatment for lupus. The link to the site is below, and the information is about 2/3 of the way down the page, under the heading chemotherapy.
http://www.hopkins-arthritis.org/arthritis-info/lupus/
To sum it up shortly, some oncologists were using a short 4 day burst of chemotherapy for aplastic anemia with good results, and wondered if it would work for lupus.
The piece goes on to state that some research was done, and the results were promising. What I can't find is the actual research paper itself, what kind of chemo are they talking about, ect. ect. :scratch:
I told my husband that if this was such a great soloution, a lot more people would know about it and be standing in line to try. He's ready to fly me out there and give it go right now - argh
hno: - but he means well.
Has anyone else tried this therapy, or know anything further about it? If it really is out there, I know this is the group that can tell me. :bigsmile:
http://www.hopkins-arthritis.org/arthritis-info/lupus/
To sum it up shortly, some oncologists were using a short 4 day burst of chemotherapy for aplastic anemia with good results, and wondered if it would work for lupus.
The piece goes on to state that some research was done, and the results were promising. What I can't find is the actual research paper itself, what kind of chemo are they talking about, ect. ect. :scratch:
I told my husband that if this was such a great soloution, a lot more people would know about it and be standing in line to try. He's ready to fly me out there and give it go right now - argh
Has anyone else tried this therapy, or know anything further about it? If it really is out there, I know this is the group that can tell me. :bigsmile: