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Interestingly enough, the HIV virus has been repurposed to cure Leukemia (vs. Leukemia treatment used to fight HIV): https://www.focusforwardfilms.com/films/72
by hangonhn 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the HIV virus has been repurposed to cure Leukemia (vs. Leukemia treatment used to fight HIV):
https://www.focusforwardfilms.com/films/72/fire-with-fire https://www.focusforwardfilms.com/films/72/fire-with-fire
IIRC the first patient of this treatment has recently marked 10 years in remissions.
- mleonhard 5y agoHere's an article about it: https://cei.org/blog/human-achievement-of-the-day-using-hiv-to-cure-leukemia/ https://cei.org/blog/human-achievement-of-the-day-using-hiv-... The hospital's own article about it: https://www.chop.edu/stories/relapsed-leukemia-emilys-story https://www.chop.edu/stories/relapsed-leukemia-emilys-story I could not find info on that particular trial. Here's one that is happening now: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04276870 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04276870 I found no details about how the treatment uses HIV. If it is used, it is used to modify the patient's T cells in the lab. So HIV is not curing leukemia, but it is used to prepare T cells which cure leukemia.
- hashimotonomora 5y agoWe’ll call it… T-virus!
- jl2718 5y agoThis brings up a funny memory. I had this idea in 4th grade when I learned about HIV but not how it was often acquired. Science teacher horrified at the suggestion of how to cure child Leukemia.