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How Can Batten Disease Be Treated?

Is there a treatment for NCL3 which is known as Batten Disease, and if so what are some of the treatment used to treat this kind of Diease? If I was rich I would pay but I am not and my granddaughter life depend on this, I was told there were no treatments for this disease. But thank you anyway.
Fri, 14 Apr 2017
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Hi. Sorry to say that Batten Disease is a terminal disease with no cure.The only treatment is symptomatic & supportive.
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How Can Batten Disease Be Treated?

Hi. Sorry to say that Batten Disease is a terminal disease with no cure.The only treatment is symptomatic & supportive.