new cure for childhood leukemia - inject HIV

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I don't know the back ground to this. Apparently a scientist in Philidelphia has come up with a technique to use HIV to trigger attacks against leukemia. That's all I got. Just some chit chat about a Aussie 60 minutes program last night. I'm figuring this is for the children.

Anyone find any background info on this one?

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ok so nothing on the HIV angle yet which is suspect.

found this which talks about using a Virus Particle so maybe this is it without them exposing what virus particle they are using:


Modified-virus treatment causes hope for leukemia cure
Researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute say they’ve been able to use a virus-like particle to kill human blood cancer cells and cure mice of leukemia.

Dr. John Bell and Dr. David Conrad said in a study published in Blood Cancer Journal they used UV light to take away the ability of a virus to multiply and spread, but keep its ability to enter and kill leukemia cells.

“It kills the cancer cells, the leukemia cells; it preserves the healthy cells,” said Dr. Conrad.

“And when these leukemia cells die it simultaneously induces an immune memory effect, so we are hopeful that this would prevent relapse as well going forward."

Their study found this therapy killed such cells in patients where therapies such as chemotherapy had been unsuccessful.

It said 80 per cent of mice with leukemia who received this modified-virus therapy lived much longer than those who did not, and 60 per cent of these mice were eventually cured.

Pair worked with viruses for years

This is the first time they’ve worked with viruses modified in this way and the first time they’ve worked on blood cancers.

The hospital said the researchers have been working on other, “solid” cancers using viruses for years (http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/08/31/cancer-virus-intravenous-study.html), but this breakthrough is the closest they have come to a possible cure.

"We are hoping that through optimization of dosing schedules and regimens that we can start to use that word for many patients with acute leukemia using this therapy,” said Dr. Conrad.

“This is our goal and our dream."

Dr. Conrad said they hope to test this treatment on patients in the near future, which could be at least two years away.

Dr. Bell and Dr. Conrad worked with the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa on this study.

link (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/08/13/ottawa-hospital-research-leukemia-virus-treatment.html)

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I wonder what causes the leukemia in the first place?

Stay away from hospitals and all they cater for!

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that was my thought. Dont inject your kids and they won't get blood poisoning.