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From: malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy)
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Subject: Re: Elimination of AIDS from a patient.
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Date: 21 Dec 89 03:49:08 GMT
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In article <30142@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> JONESRA%AMBER.decnet@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (REX A. JONES 857-9563) writes:
>I know that this is really recent news, but does anyone have any 
>information on the case that was announced about the elimination of AIDS 
>in a patient through a bone marrow transplant? While this is not going to 
>be a practical treatment for all sufferers, it does offer some more hope 
>that AIDS can be beaten.

It was not just a bone marrow transplant; it was the full leukemia
treatment: a heavy regimen of chemotherapy and radiation treatments to kill
all of the patient's own bone marrow, followed by a marrow transplant, and
treatment with AZafterward.

The patient had no signs of HIV-1 in his blood or organs 30 days after the
treatment; he died shortly thereafter from cancer.

The full procedure in and of itself has about a 25% mortality rate; this is
making researchers reluctant to solicit volunteers from AIDS-infected
people who are still healthy.

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