Doctors Use HIV To Cure 7-Year-Old’s Cancer
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/431832/doctors-use-hiv-to-cure-7-year-olds-cancer/#KJ7uwz5U6tdfvDqz.99
"Emma Whitehead is a 7-year-old cancer patient. After two years of
battling with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, she was selected to
participate in an experimental trial that uses a disabled version of HIV
to “cure” cancer.
To do this, doctors used a modified and disabled form of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, to alter the T cells’ genes, causing them to produce a protein called a chimeric antigen receptor on their surface, making the T cells attach to the B cells, and ultimately destroy them..."
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From what I understand the girl is still highly prone to infection & her immune system is fragile therefore she has to continually be on medication. However, after 8 months, she is in complete remission from the leukemia. WOW!!!
She is strong and for the parents this was a last ditch effort--she was going to die.
Could this be the piece of the puzzle missing as to why the HIV virus occurred at all?
I KNOW, AT WHAT PRICE?
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