"The next two to three years, Brendan's full-time job is doing hand therapy, six hours a day, every single day, once nerves grow in, " said Dr. Jaimie Shores, clinical director of hand transplantation at Johns Hopkins.

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On the other hand, chelation therapy is strongly supported by the alternative medicine community and more than 100, 000 people receive chelation therapy each year.

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On the one hand, most physicians and scientists have dismissed chelation therapy as lacking any evidence or rationale.

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Woods, 34, told the hand-picked attendees he had spent 45 days in therapy and claimed he still had "a long way to go" to overcome his problems.

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The new therapy involved immobilising one or more fingers of the afflicted hand with splints, while leaving the finger affected by dystonia free.

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With FDA approval of new drugs like Kadcyla, and human trials of nanoparticle cancer therapy in the offing, it is possible that humanity is finally gaining the upper hand on a disease that once seemed invulnerable.

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