Aug 112011
Here’s a hell of a thing:
New leukemia treatment exceeds ‘wildest expectations’
Basically, a neutered and defanged form of the HIV virus is used to insert a new gene sequence into leukemia patients white blood cells. The new gene sequence turns the white cells into “serial killers” that target the cancer cells, *and* causes the white cells to reproduce themselves a thousand fold. End result: three patients treated this way got a fever (symptom of the white blood cells fighting off an infection), and two of them are now leukemia-free, the third has had a 70% reduction.
Needs a lot more research, but if it pans out… neato! Cancer might be cured.
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This is ironic
because there a HIV victim, who was cured by leukemia treatment in 2007
in short:
A HIV victim get acute myelogenous leukemia,
the Doctors used heavy chemotherapy to kill the white blood cells and his bone marrow
after that he got a stem cell transplant
since this the men has a HIV levels below the limit of detection
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe0810248
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n456845878457783/
Wow, this totally sounds like the plot for a sci-fi horror film. “Just take this ‘safe’ version of a horrible virus and it will cure your other horrible disease – what could go wrong?”
Jokes aside – I really hope this works.
It might only work for lukemia. After all, AIDS is a virus designed to attack the immune system, and this type of lukemia is a cancer of the immune system. But even if it only works for this specific type of cancer, that’s still thousands of lives saved a year.
Also, did you catch the bit about how the cancer treatment was funded by a private charity? Score one for the libertarians 🙂
it might work also on multiple sclerosis, were white blood cells attack nerve cells
The idea of using viruses to attack aggressive cancer has been around several years, but getting it to work on a given cancer without seriously harming the patient is difficult. This case sounds like using a virus to deliver gene therapy, itself an immature technique, rather than the virus attacking the cancer cells directly.
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Leukemia treatment cures HIV. HIV cures leukemia. It is lke that commercial where the dirt seeks out the mop. Doctores are not joining the dots. And the most important question is WHAT IS SAFE HIV virus? Do some of us test postive for the safe HIV virus?
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