Medications
Promising Advances in Medicine Uses HIV to Fight Cancer

What an amazing last couple of weeks with promising leads, breakthroughs and advances in the fight against HIV/AIDS. And now this story; New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine, Dr. Carl June, who led research at the Abramson Cancer Center at University of Pennsylvania, has successfully driven advanced cancer from patients’ bodies using a disabled form of HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, to carry cancer-fighting genes into the patients’ T-cells.
He’s tested it on three patients of who had chronic leukemia. Two of the patients have remained in full remission since the treatment. One patient had a partial remission. This is a great step forward in attacking two horrible diseases by re-programming one to fight another. Read the story which is interesting. Of course there are side effects as with any testing.
Tom Thayer
Source; http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=6481
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