An experimental treatment that sees a patient’s own cells transplanted into damaged parts of their lung could offer new hope to sufferers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers have said.
A new preliminary study, involving only 20 patients, has shown that it is possible to repair damaged lung tissue among certain COPD patients using their own lung cells.
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