Does anyone knows a date?

[2bald2young]

Looking at the current advantages, when do you guys think (guess maybe), there will be a cure? If it is (and probably going to be) 10 years or more (even 5 years is just too long for me considering my age) than my life is practically over...

 

[BrianP]

None can tell u for sure but in my opnion its gonna take a while :/
Dude, just take a look at some of these transplants by FUE (doesnt leave that huge "smile" scar on the back of ur head), some of the best hair transplants i have seen..

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZReMHLJtrmN2DPZWsP98-A

And if u r like really bald then take a look at this patient too bro:

http://www.newhair.com/photos/patient-zu/

I honestly didnt know hair transplants could look good like this

 

[2bald2young]

A cure like you get injections and your hair loss stops and your lost hair regrows? I'd say, very realistically, near the year 2035.

Better treatments and breakthroughs in hair transplantation will come before that of course. Well, I hope so.

But what about histogen, haircloning, pgd2 and so on? Now I think about it we lack a lot of information about it we even don't know how to stop it definitely Let alone cloning.

 

[hellouser]

A cure like you get injections and your hair loss stops and your lost hair regrows? I'd say, very realistically, near the year 2035.

Better treatments and breakthroughs in hair transplantation will come before that of course. Well, I hope so.

Since we're all speculating.... you could throw in some optimism and say in 3.25 years when Replicel's Phase II trials are done... assuming of course they're culturing DSC cells in 3D (which is more likely to grow hair than culturing in 2D).

 

[hellouser]

So in 2017, Replicel will enter in phase three? Which will last 3 years too right? It means that in 2020 we could have a better minoxidil. I thought we were talking about a cure?

Phase III isn't necessary to deliver a working product in Asian jurisdictions. More over, Japan deregulated stem cell therapy allowing commercialization after a brief Phase II trial.

Anyway we shouldn't expect or talk about a cure. Do we have a cure for acne? Heart disease? Diabetes? Eye floaters? Anything? Barely.

Those are different. We're trying to create new organs (follicles)... we're not really curing baldness.

 

[hellouser]

Oh OK, so we'll still need to have them transplanted right? When it's available, it's done, hair loss is cured.

No, the DSC cells are cultured and then injected back into the scalp and supposed to bind to existing miniaturized follicles (follicles never die, theyre just too small to grow hair) and rejuvenating them back to normal size. Other DSC cells are supposed to create new follicles on their own. No implant needed which will be a godsend and hair transplant docs will be rendered useless... though they'll still have their place.

But like I said, we're all speculating so it remains to be seen how well Replicel's method works... if at all. I have a feeling though that if it does work it will be dose dependant so they can force you to come back for multiple sessions to keep their revenue/profits going.... just like the dependance of people on pills from pharmaceuticals.

 

[JZA70]

OP, I know you're young and desperate, like much of us.

The truth is that no one actually knows when or if a cure will ever come.

Everything you hear about timelines is just speculation. No one knows.