Kathy Giusti Quotes

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.