Stories like this are huge.
Even if it’s rare, it shows beating HIV isn’t impossible anymore.
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Weary_Turnover_84995 days ago
+37
Isn't this the same technology which has been used for a decade or two already.
If I recall correctly the treatment is riskier than having HIV so it's not done unless you have a cancer which is even deadlier
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chief_blunt95 days ago
+69
As someone who recently (100 days out) had a stem cell transplant for leukemia, they did make me sign a bunch of papers before I went through with it stating I had like a 5% chance of dying just from the treatment. Though my worst symptom was just constant diarrhea but that could have been from the chemo and not from the transplant itself.
But good news it seems to have worked and I just got my biopsy results and I don’t have any leukemia in my body anymore.
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PhillipIInd5 days ago
+14
F*** yeah buddy
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chief_blunt95 days ago
+12
Thank you. I never truly got it when people said f*** cancer but fuckkkkk cancer. I’m 30 and got a cancer all my doctors said was the cancer I got was for people 65+.
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Different_Syrup_69444 days ago
+6
You beat the odds in more ways than one!
Congrats. My brother also had a variant of Leukemia, and was able to beat it with a bone marrow transplant
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magdalen-alpinism4 days ago
+2
Awesome. full respect to you. Hope things continue to get better
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Snusirumpa3 days ago
+1
Good luck to you I wish you the best and good recovery
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fhota15 days ago
+10
Beating HIV hasnt been impossible for a while now. Like once we got over the Reaganite apathy because turns out not just gay people get it, we got AZT in 1987 which wasnt great but helped some and then HAART in 1995 helped a ton. Anymore we have drugs that can push the virus down to the point that its more or less asymptomatic and cant be transmitted. Some well directed and well funded programs with enough social buy-in could probably put HIV in the same status as Polio within a few generations
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DrFeelgood1443 days ago
+1
HIV can be cured but why do so? I mean curing HIV would wipe out 100s of Billions in revenue for drug companies........
Let alone the income for 1000s of 'researchers'
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mikemunyi5 days ago
+72
Save you a click: Stem cell transplant to treat unrelated blood cancer.
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GodsCasino5 days ago
+9
THANK YOU
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kilar2775 days ago
+1
So it was *an accident*?
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Naxis255 days ago
+15
Less an accident and more a known "benefit" of a very risky procedure done for cancers like this. There've already been a couple other people cured of HIV in the same way, but current antiviral regiments are just much safer than full on killing off your immune system (and red blood cell production) and replacing it with someone else's
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cryyingboy5 days ago
+31
imagine your brother just casually curing your hiv
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blackdarrren5 days ago
+2
All of the people around us, they say
"Can they be that close?"
Just let me state for the record
We're giving love in a family dose
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