Man Cured from Type 1

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A 61-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be cured of type 1 diabetes thanks to a groundbreaking cell transplant technique.

After receiving insulin-making cells from the pancreases of dead donors, Richard Lane of Bromley, Kent, no longer needs insulin injections.

For the transplant, healthy islet cells are taken from donor pancreases and are injected into the patient's liver.

Once there, they develop their own blood supply and begin to produce insulin. Insulin is something that most diabetics , type 1 pt.s dont make forcing them to take insulin shots several times a day.

Eventually this could mean the end of insulin dependence for all type 1 diabetes sufferers. But there was a shortage of donor pancreases from which to extract islet cells, which means they could not treat everyone with type 1 diabetes. The transplant work is moving forward all the time and hopefully it will become more widely available in the future.

( Thank you BBC for info )