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A 42-year-old man who had both leukemia and AIDS received a bone marrow transplant — a common, late-stage treatment for that type of cancer. His doctor selected a bone marrow donor who had a rare genetic mutation that renders people virtually immune to HIV. The transplant appeared to cure the patient of AIDS
Bjones.....you should have add your informative post to our HIV thread in the Science and Technology forums here on City Data as we are discussing the science behind it and a possible cure someday.
That is an incredibly silly statement. That is like saying that once they find a cure for cancer people will take up smoking, never mind chem, radiation, drug side effects, bone marrow transplants - all those treatments are just so 'easy' . No cure is going to be as simple as popping a pill so the whole process of getting better will not be worth having unprotected sex for the people tat are smart about it now.
A 42-year-old man who had both leukemia and AIDS received a bone marrow transplant — a common, late-stage treatment for that type of cancer. His doctor selected a bone marrow donor who had a rare genetic mutation that renders people virtually immune to HIV. The transplant appeared to cure the patient of AIDS
Bone marrow transplants are pretty risky.
Our doctor told us that even on a young, healthy person, there was a 1 in 3 chance of survival.
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Perhaps the most important caveat is just how risky bone marrow transplantation is: It’s given to cancer patients after other treatments fail, and it kills up to 30% of patients.
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. No cure is going to be as simple as popping a pill so the whole process of getting better will not be worth having unprotected sex for the people tat are smart about it now.
