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Old 06-21-2013, 4:54pm   #1
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Doctors Take A Long Shot And Inject HIV Into Dying Girl. The Reason Why Will Amaze You.
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Old 06-21-2013, 4:56pm   #2
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"Dr. Matthews, I have an idea. I was sitting on my couch last night, watching King Kong vs Godzilla...."
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That is insanely wild and amazing. So will she continue to lead a healthy life with HIV? I wish the video was a little long and more in depth.
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Doctors used a disabled form of HIV to reprogram a child's immune system to kill her cancer. Emma Whitehead had been battling leukemia for two years and has now been in remission for seven months thanks to the groundbreaking medical treatment.
"Different to using chemotherapy to achieve those goals, you take out some of the body's immune cells and you basically reprogram them. You put some genetic material into them that teaches the cells to attack that cancer," says Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "They're using a sort of deadened form of the HIV virus to transport that genetic material into cells."
The experimental procedure was developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, and they've tested it on 12 patients so far with varying results. The $20,000 price tag is cheaper than a bone marrow transplant.
Explaining the science behind the body's reaction, Gupta says, "The person also, often times, gets very sick. They get the immune system really blown up. It's a long hospitalization, it's a tough hospitalization."
Gupta also points to the possible implications for patients who relapse. "If you have these cells in your body that are now trained to be able to recognize that cancer, if the cancer were to ever come back, it is possible these cells could immediately attack it. So it's kind of, almost like a cancer vaccine....imagine that."
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That is insanely wild and amazing. So will she continue to lead a healthy life with HIV? I wish the video was a little long and more in depth.
The HIV virus has been reprogrammed so that it can no longer cause the disease but can kill cancer cells.
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The HIV virus has been reprogrammed so that it can no longer cause the disease but can kill cancer cells.
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Yeah, this story has pretty much blown my mind.
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Yeah, this story has pretty much blown my mind.
Yeh, mine too, what little we had left.....no loss.....
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Glad to hear that the little girl is getting a possible second chance at life through break through research. I wonder if they can some day do that to someone who doesn't have cancer, In other words a vaccine against cancer.
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WOW!
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This is who'd have ever thought that the AIDS/HIV epidemic from the 80's would turn into this? Amazing!
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Curing cancer will be the beginning of the end for humanity... mark my words.
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Curing cancer will be the beginning of the end for humanity... mark my words.
Just leave it to the inner cities to keep the population down.
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Big drug companies will kill the cure.
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Big drug companies will kill the cure.
That was said about AIDS
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That was said about AIDS
So far so good then. We still have AIDS and there are a dozing drugs you can take to prolong your life. The longer you live the more drugs we can sell you.
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