First man cured of HIV infection now has terminal cancer
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.
Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a rare, natural resistance to the AIDS virus. For years, that was thought to have cured his leukemia and his HIV infection, and he still shows no signs of HIV.
But in an interview with The Associated Press, Brown said his cancer returned last year and has spread widely. He’s receiving hospice care where he now lives in Palm Springs, California.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 1, 2020 2:13 AM
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Sad story. Can't imagine having blood cancer and HIV at the same time. The fact that he is even still alive though, is miraculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 29, 2020 2:06 PM
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"Natural defense" against HIV is a mutation of the T-cells which HIV targets. And T-cells run some aspects of the body's immune defenses, so having t-cells that don't function normally can give an opening to other diseases which rely on the T-cells to destroy them.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 29, 2020 2:58 PM
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Nature never gives anything for free
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 29, 2020 3:11 PM
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Timothy Ray Brown, first person to be cured of HIV, dies aged 54
• Brown, ‘the Berlin patient’, died of cancer at home in California
• Marrow and stem cell transplants successfully treated virus
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 1, 2020 12:08 AM
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Did he quaff of the peen, or was he a Haitian or drug abuser?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 1, 2020 12:20 AM
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Even if the HIV is considered cured, isn't there still a increased risk of cancer due to immunity deficiency?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 1, 2020 12:24 AM
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HIV can be cured but cancers cannot!!! Cancers are what we eat and what we consume and nothing else.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 1, 2020 12:30 AM
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R8, what about ass cancer?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 1, 2020 12:33 AM
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