Re: SPOILER: Bo: New recovery option???

The Simpsons Spanglie wrote:
> On Mar 10, 11:18 am, Bonbon <tresbon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mar 10, 12:10�pm, suzee <suz...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Bada wrote:
>>>> How can anyone help. If they give Chelsea's pancreas to Bo, then she
>>>> won't have one and she will die.
>>> Maybe they just take cells from it. The spoilers I've read don't say
>>> anything about a transplant, only that it's a `new'
procedure/treatment
>>> and it must involove matching a family member. If this treatment does
>>> work, it would give Chelsea a turnaround - from thinking she's harmed
>>> people to saving her Pop.- Hide quoted text -
>>> - Show quoted text -
>> It's supposedly this new innovative procedure that only Dr. Studly
>> knows how to do.  It entails taking only a part of the pancreas.  Only
>> on soaps!
>>
>> Bonbon
> 
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> 
> Yeah, I agree, I thought that was incredibly funky. It said something
> in SODigest (and not on NWA, where I got the original spoiler) that
> the small part of the pancreas that they take from the donor will
> eventually grow back? I nearly hurled on myself when I read that. I
> don't know, maybe it's true. I don't recall anyone saying that during
> Isabella's storyline, though, although she actually *had* the cancer
> and it wasn't a pancreatic failure/transplant like with Bo. 

Some organs will do that; you can take a lobe off the liver and it will 
grow back. One of the boards said it was based on a real procedure, more 
information at http://www.pancreastransplant.org/