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Here'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-usi
by mleonhard 5y ago
Here'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.