An unlikely MS therapy: MS responds to high doses of chemotherapy in study, improving health of five subjects:
"Stony Brook University Hospital's Dr. Douglas Gladstone enrolled a dozen patients into the experimental drug trial with cyclophosphamide, a powerful drug used to treat leukemia and lymphoma. It wipes out the body's immune system, which is exactly why Gladstone suspected it would work in multiple sclerosis. In the disease process, T-cells of the immune system attack the myelin sheath, the insulation around the nerve cells......"