HIV breakthrough as cancer drug could hold secret to curing the virus

www.mirror.co.uk ^ | 00:05, 1 DEC 2017 Updated10:52, 1 DEC 2017 | ByAmy-Clare Martin

[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.

[rlmorel]

"...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..."

I don't know why, but that comment made me involuntarily snicker, then I had an immediate feeling it was inappropriate to laugh...don't know why.

For some odd reason, it reminded me of my grandfather's wake, and my brother brought my five year old nephew to it. My grandfather was 94, and he had a very big French nose, laying on his back, it looked like a two car garage.

As my brother and his son knelt beside the corpse, my nephew looked up as his father, and with all the appropriateness and tact available to a five year old, he said: "Can I put my fingers up his nose?"

Even after all these years, it makes me grin to think of it, then for a split second, I have to think "Is that appropriate to laugh?"

[blackdog]

My house had a parlor room with pocket doors in the front of the house. It also had a stand pipe in the middle of the room which ran outside into the yard.

No heat was ever plumbed into the room, so closing the pocket doors meant below freezing temperatures in the winter.

This room was where they laid out family members who had died. The pipe was mfor the melting ice in warm weather until burial, and the pocket doors were meant to keep the body cold until the ground thawed enough to dig a grave in the spring.

When keeping it real gets creepy..........

[aimhigh]

This is a good news/bad news article. Good to see a cure. But the bath houses will return, and a worse disease will follow.

[rlmorel]

We forget how that kind of thing works these days...we take for granted we can plant people into the ground whenever we want, probably because we don’t have to dig the grave!

[blackdog]

In many northern latitude states when one attends a funeral in February, the body really isn't even buried. It is kept in a freezer until the mud season arrives, then buried quietly. You can pay extra to have them thaw the plot if you really insist.

I'm going for cremation and small little bags my kids can hang from their rear view mirrors so I get to go on their trips.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahaha...”I will be with you always”!

[rainee]

I’ve heard about taking apricot kernels but also read dangerous if take too many? Where do you buy yours from?

[Bob Celeste]

I took 45 a day for 6 weeks, broken down into three equal doses.

I have heard the same thing, but can find not one documented case where anyone got any more than nauseous, which is easily remedied by mixing the kernels with apple sauce or juice.

The big reason that it is suppressed is money, your doc makes about 6,000 dollars a chemo treatment, I make about 10 dollars from the sale of a month supply of Kernels.