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.
Hiv treated with stem cells.
Receiving stem cells from this donor it turned out not only treated mr.
Brown s leukemia but.
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.
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.
Stem cell transplants are an established treatment for the cancer.
This is one of the standard bone cancer treatments.
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.
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.
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.
In this case however there was a second goal.
He received a stem cell transplant from a donor.
He looked for a donor with a specific genetic mutation that made them practically immune to hiv.
To cure the patient s hiv.
The man had hodgkin lymphoma a cancer of the lymphatic system a key part of our immune system.
The stem cells came from a donor who carried a rare.
Uk patient free of hiv after stem cell treatment reports bbc news.
Tim received two transplants of bone marrow stem cells one from this hiv immune donor.
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.
