--- Quote from: WillyWump on May 06, 2013, 06:39:01 pm ---Good point.
Because i doubt, although Im hopeful, that the cure will be a one pill "take it and we are done" type of thing.
-W
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I read some of these articles that say they would need to do full body radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out your immune system then a gene therapy or stem cell replacement to effect a cure. umm no thank you.
JazJon:
I wonder........ How does Methotrexate Dr Barasa used compare to Busulfan Calimmune is using for pre-conditioning trials?
--- Quote from: JazJon on May 06, 2013, 08:39:53 pm ---I wonder........ How does Methotrexate Dr Barasa used compare to Busulfan Calimmune is using for pre-conditioning trials?
--- Quote from: buginme2 on May 06, 2013, 07:26:19 pm ---I read some of these articles that say they would need to do full body radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out your immune system then a gene therapy or stem cell replacement to effect a cure. umm no thank you.
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Zackly. People think that this miraculous "cure" (if it were to actually happen) will be some simple pop-a-pill or get-a-shot-in-yer-booty kinda thing. So naive.
leatherman:
--- Quote from: buginme2 on May 06, 2013, 07:26:19 pm ---I read some of these articles that say they would need to do full body radiation and chemotherapy to wipe out your immune system then a gene therapy or stem cell replacement to effect a cure. umm no thank you.
--- End quote --- so far that's the only way a "cure" has been affected. I personally refrain from calling these procedures "cures" as they are actually immune system destruction and replacement procedures. And of course, there are all those messy stats of how often the radiation and chemo cause death. ;) Not to mention years of severe after effects. (the story of Timothy Brown shows that afterwards there are lots of problems/issues just to be able to say that you are HIV-free) If you were dying of lukemia or something it might be worth a last ditch effort (the point the "cured" people have been at so far); but if you're fairly healthy, these procedures have a huge risk factor of death.