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TEB

(12,895 posts)
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 07:27 PM Dec 2017

In Newsweek today online 12/1/17 cancer drug has effect on HIV

Ok once again I don’t know how to paste copy links from I phone to Du but check it out. I hope we can find a weapon for those suffering as we have close friend my wife and I who lives with hiv. I’m texting him article after this. Or check it out on my Twitter T.E.B.@ turtle herder I can paste on Twitter they have link.

Link is below thanks to magic carpet

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In Newsweek today online 12/1/17 cancer drug has effect on HIV (Original Post) TEB Dec 2017 OP
Newsweek link from above here.... magicarpet Dec 2017 #1
Thank you for posting TEB Dec 2017 #2

magicarpet

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1. Newsweek link from above here....
Fri Dec 1, 2017, 07:50 PM
Dec 2017

Thank you TEB nice article.....

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Updated | For the 37 million people living with HIV, a cure could be life-changing. However, the virus's biology makes finding a real cure exceedingly difficult. Copies of HIV's genetic code can hide themselves in cells where current therapies can't reach them. But one specific drug, already hailed as a class of potentially breakthrough drugs for cancer, might be able to flush those copies of the virus out—and some people with HIV have already begun to see results.

A 51-year-old man with both HIV and lung cancer, whose HIV levels were undetectable before he began treatment, received a drug called nivolumab after the first attempt to treat his cancer didn't work.

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http://www.newsweek.com/hiv-cure-french-doctors-use-cancer-drugs-eradicate-hidden-copies-virus-728213
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