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Change to Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians--position statement: the place of mesenchymal stem/stromal cell therapies in sport and exercise medicine
The Board of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians has recently learnt concerns of the Australian Government, other medical colleges and our own fellowship regarding the safety of procedures involved with the provision of stem cell therapy to patients. These concerns are partially driven by reports recently published in the lay media, scientific literature and a coroner’s report. A recent case report in the New England Journal of Medicine1 of a glioproliferative tumour in the spine after treatment with a mixture of mesenchymal, embryonic and fetal allogeneic stem cells for residual effects of a st...
Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - September 29, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Osborne, H., Castricum, A. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research