To treat his leukemia his doctors wanted to wipe out his immune system with radiation and chemotherapy and then rebuild it with donated stem cells.
Hiv treated with stem cells.
He had chemotherapy to treat the hodgkin s cancer and in addition stem cells were implanted into the patient from a donor resistant to hiv leading to both his cancer and hiv going into remission.
The man had hodgkin lymphoma a cancer of the lymphatic system a key part of our immune system.
But in order to treat the lymphoma with stem cells doctors needed to find a donor who was resistant to his other condition hiv the virus that causes aids.
As the donor has a very rare genetic mutation ccr5 delta 32 that makes them hiv resistant the stem cells sent the hiv into remission with only a mild reaction from the treatment.
He received a stem cell transplant from a donor.
In this case however there was a second goal.
Receiving stem cells from this donor it turned out not only treated mr.
After the stem cell treatment which involved replacing the patient s white blood cells with hiv resistant versions the patient was deemed as in remission.
The stem cells came from a donor who carried a rare.
Hiv treatment has been stymied because reservoirs of infected cells have remained latent or in hiding in the bone marrow of patients and can later reactivate.
He looked for a donor with a specific genetic mutation that made them practically immune to hiv.
To cure the patient s hiv.
This is one of the standard bone cancer treatments.
Treatment with anti virals.
Wednesday july 2 healthday news two hiv positive patients show no trace of virus after receiving chemotherapy and stem cell transplants as treatment for lymphoma according to new research.
Stem cell transplants are an established treatment for the cancer.
Doctors report that a man with hiv who was given a stem cell transplant to treat his blood cancer has no detectable signs of hiv 18 months after stopping anti hiv treatment.
The twist was tim s bone marrow donor was immune to hiv.