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Home > HIV Virus Being Used to Treat (and Possibly Cure) Cancer

HIV Virus Being Used to Treat (and Possibly Cure) Cancer

Written by:  Jamie

Scientist Myung-Haing Cho of South Korea modified a lentivirus (HIV is a commonly known example of a lentivirus) to treat lung cancer in mice with spectacular results.

This treatment has now been used on a handful of human patients.

One of whom was a six-year-old girl dying of Leukemia.

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Six-year-old Emma Whitehead during her treatment.

Her story is amazing and gives hope that the The Emperor of All Maladies, as Siddhartha Mukherjee named it, will soon be dethroned.

 

Jun 27, 2013Jamie
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