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Batten disease

How is it treated?

Our understanding of Batten disease is improving all the time and work to develop new therapies is progressing well. However, at present there is no cure or treatment that makes a significant impact on the progressive decline in bodily functions and inevitable early death.

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Medical text written January 2008, Batten Disease Family Association. Approved January 2008 by Dr Ruth Williams, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Guy's Hospital, London, UK and Sara Mole, Reader in Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.

 

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