Oldest patient yet cured of HIV after receiving stem cell transplant
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City of Hope' patient, aged 66, received transplant to treat leukemia from donor naturally resistant to Aids-causing virus
The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukemia, researchers reported on Wednesday.
While the transplant was planned to treat the now 66-year-old's leukemia, the doctors also sought a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes Aids, a mechanism that first worked to cure the Berlin patient", Timothy Ray Brown, in 2007.
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