The International Society for CellularTherapy (ISCT;
www.celltherapysociety.org), with a strategy adopted
more than 5 year ago (Gunter KC et al. Cytotherapy
2010), wishes to continue raising awareness about unproven
cellular therapies. All over the world, there is
a legitimate effort to introduce cellular therapies into
the clinic; however, at the same time a large number
of clinics have begun offering cell-based intervention
for a variety of diseases with questionable safety
or efficacy data or an unclear scientific rationale.This
has led to many vulnerable patients subjecting themselves
to unproven cellular therapies with no adequate
regulatory oversight or reliable information about risks
or benefit.
For this reason, ISCT feels the need to provide a
new source of information: an open document that
represents a sharing of knowledge by leaders in the
field
