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Traces Of HIV Found In Blood Of Previously 'Cured' Patients
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In July, the two patients tested negative for the immunodeficiency virus. Now, however, Brigham and Women's Hospital associate professor of infectious diseases Dr.
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Both patients had been suffering from the blood cancer Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and after other cancer treatments had proven unsuccessful, the doctors transplanted healthy bone marrow into the patients. The hope was the transplant would help purge cancerous blood cells in favor of healthy cells, but the dangerous procedure involved a weakening of the immune system and carried with it a 15 to 20 percent chance of death.
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