Posted on 12/01/2017 6:12:44 AM PST by Red Badger
Doctors using a treatment called nivolumab on a lung cancer patient with Aids noticed a “drastic and persistent” decrease in infected white blood cells
A new cancer drug could “cure” HIV, a revolutionary study suggests.
Doctors using a treatment called nivolumab on a lung cancer patient with Aids noticed a “drastic and persistent” decrease in infected white blood cells.
The findings have raised hopes that drugs could one day eradicate the HIV virus, which attacks the immune system and currently has no cure.
At present, those infected must take anti-HIV drugs for the rest of their lives to stop the virus replicating.
Prof Fabrice Andre from the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France, said today: “Although this is a single case study, it is an exciting result.
“Anti-HIV drugs usually stop virus replication but don’t cure the patients who still have reservoirs of the virus.
“This study generates the hypothesis that drugs that make the virus disappear could, perhaps, cure patients.”
Nivolumab, which has no known side effects, appeared to cause a dramatic reduction in reservoirs of HIV infected cells in the test-patient as well as an increase in T-cells which fight cancer.
Prof Jean-Philippe Spano, who led the medical team at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, said: “This is the first demonstration of this mechanism in humans. It could have implications for HIV patients.
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Syphilis another diseases have gotten worse. Scummy people engaging in Random sexWill continue to spread social diseases.
Cure schmure
Nivolumab (and other checkpoint inhibitors) work by activating T cells (the cells that are infected by HIV).
The mechanism seems to make sense! But we need to see via clinical trials that these drugs really work and for what classes of AIDS patients.
Also the latest news over freeze dried plasma use has been very interesting. The implications are hugh and series.
A bag of freeze dried plasma can also be dry formulated with virus immunizations and other medicines. Just add water (sterile saline).
Nonsense
IIRC, I could be mistaken, but didn’t Trump Administration make it easier to bring new drugs to market faster?...................
Nope. How many “cures” have been touted over the past decade which turned out to be false?
As long as the sodomite “community” continues to foster an ideal environment for this virus, it will continue to morph into super strains defying a cure.
Yes, I was very interested in the freeze dried plasma announcement as well.
Sometimes real life mimics fiction. Remember in I Am Legend, scientists cured cancer by modifying the rabies virus, but created a horrific monster strain of human.
I can’t see “no side effects” as being realistic.
It has been over 36 months since I was diagnosed with stage four coon cancer, I have used no chemo, no radiation only Apricots, Apricot kernels, my own saliva and prayer, and I am doing fine and looking forward to CHRISTmas and then 90 days later my 74th birthday.
Cancer is a vitamin deficiency.
Even though it was old WWII technology. Which for me makes me feel better about it.
The most common side effects of nivolumab for melanoma patients include:
Fatigue
Joint or muscle pain
Diarrhea
Rash or itchy skin
Nausea
The most common side effects of nivolumab for NSCL patients include:
Fatigue
Joint or muscle pain
Decreased appetite
Cough
Constipation
The most common side effects of nivolumab for renal cell carcinoma patients include:
Fatigue
Shortness of breath
Joint or muscle pain
Decreased appetite
Rash
Diarrhea
Cough
Constipation
Rash or itchy skin
Nausea
The most common side effects of nivolumab for Hodgkin lymphoma patients include:
Fatigue
Upper respiratory infection
Fever
https://www.cancercenter.com/cancer-drugs/nivolumab/
As usual NEVER trust the media, especially on medical news.
Long list of side effects for this drug: Opdivo
In about 1989 I repeated the Surgeon General’s assertion that there’d be no cure in the next 10 years, and emphasized I expected none in 20 years.
We’re nearing 30 years, and I doubt this will be declared a “cure” any time soon.
“IIRC, I could be mistaken, but didn’t Trump Administration make it easier to bring new drugs to market faster?...................”
Lets hope so. Under previous administrations it would take our wonderful government 20 years to approve known cures already in world wide use. Its a miracle we have penicillin or polio vaccine for example the way FDA works. May they be stricken themselves.
I always found the accounts interesting, that they would have these wounded guys who lost a lot of blood so pumped up with plasma that their faces looked like people who had been painted waxy-white because they has lost so many blood cells...it was a characteristic look you saw everywhere there were wounded men.
Maintaining hydraulic pressure. We are machines. The machine's components can only perform with a tightly regulated range of hydraulic pressures. That and a barely maintained level of red blood cells carrying oxygen.
That is why you don't poke a dead person's face. It makes it very difficult to pop the dent back out for the funeral.
Yep - anyone who watches TV knows all the ...umab variations have a lot of side effects - I guess it’s a coin flip about what one is willing to risk to avoid a different inevitable...
So what will this cost tax payers, $100,000 per vial?
From Wikipedia:
Side effects[edit]
The drug label contains warnings with regard to increased risks of severe immune-mediated inflammation of the lungs, the colon, the liver, the kidneys (with accompanying kidney dysfunction), as well as immune-mediated hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.[2]
In clinical trials for melanoma, the following side effects occurred in more than 10% of subjects and more frequently than with chemotherapy alone: rash and itchy skin, cough, upper respiratory tract infections, and peripheral edema. Other clinically important side effects with less than 10% frequency were ventricular arrhythmia, inflammation of parts of the eye (iridocyclitis), infusion-related reactions, dizziness, peripheral and sensory neuropathy, peeling skin, erythema multiforme, vitiligo, and psoriasis.[2]
In clinical trials for lung cancer, the following side effects occurred in more than 10% of subjects and more frequently than with chemotherapy alone: fatigue, weakness, edema, fever, chest pain, generalized pain, shortness of breath, cough, muscle and joint pain, decreased appetite, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, constipation, weight loss, rash, and itchy skin.[2]
Levels of electrolytes and blood cells counts were also disrupted.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivolumab
Looks like a bunch of side effects.
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