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A man suffering with an aggressive form of leukaemia is now in remission after doctors used the HIV virus to target and kill cancer cells.
Marshall Jensen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, shortly after getting married in 2012.
Mr Jensen, 30, and his family left their home in Utah and spent the next two years travelling around America in search of a treatment that could fight the cancer, KSL reports.
In Philadelphia, Mr Jensen learned about a rare, experimental treatment harnessing the HIV virus’ ability to insert new genes into patient’s T-cells in order to kill the otherwise incurable cancer.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...used-in-groundbreaking-treatment-9856374.html
Fascinating 🙂
Marshall Jensen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, shortly after getting married in 2012.
Mr Jensen, 30, and his family left their home in Utah and spent the next two years travelling around America in search of a treatment that could fight the cancer, KSL reports.
In Philadelphia, Mr Jensen learned about a rare, experimental treatment harnessing the HIV virus’ ability to insert new genes into patient’s T-cells in order to kill the otherwise incurable cancer.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...used-in-groundbreaking-treatment-9856374.html
Fascinating 🙂