A Cell Surgical Network affiliate that takes stem cells from a patient's own fat and gives them back as part of review-board-approved studies.
Carolina Stem Cell Treatment Center describes itself as a research affiliate of the Cell Surgical Network, a group of United States practices that use a shared protocol for procedures involving a patient's own stem cells. The website gives its location as the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. (Our directory listing records this clinic under Cary; the website itself names the wider Raleigh-Durham area and does not publish a street address.)
The centre's stated focus is stem cells taken from a patient's own fat tissue, known as adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells. The site describes a same-day process in which fat is collected under local anaesthetic, processed, and then given back to the patient. This is called a deployment rather than a treatment. The site is careful to say the work is investigational and takes place under studies approved by an Institutional Review Board, which is an ethics committee that oversees research involving people.
The site draws a distinction between the adult cells it uses and embryonic stem cells, and states that fat tissue contains these cells in quantities up to 2,500 times those found in bone marrow. That figure is published by the centre and has not been independently checked here. Because the work is framed as research, anyone considering it should ask what taking part in a study means for them, what is being measured, and whether they would be charged.
The centre lists a very wide range of conditions across joints, nerves, heart, lungs and eyes. A list this broad is a reason to ask directly what evidence supports the use of these cells in your own specific condition, and what stage that evidence is at.
Only one cell source is named on the site.
No doctor is named anywhere on the website, which is an unusual gap for a facility performing procedures. Ask who would carry out yours and what their training is.
The website gives the location only as the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and lists a telephone number, (919) 830-5949. No street address, opening hours, year of establishment, or details of the treatment rooms are published. There is no mention of services for patients travelling from abroad and no languages other than English are listed.
No prices are published on the website, and there is no stated consultation fee. Because the procedures are described as investigational research, ask before your visit whether you would be charged and how much.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.