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tsatske -> RE: A possible Aids cure (12/7/2008 2:31:11 AM)
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And, interesting, I care about the wrong thing in this story. It also makes it hard for me to understand, or wrap my head around.
Can a bone marrow transplant cure T-cell issues?
12 years ago my first DH died of a lukemia both aids-imatative and lupus imatative. It was, at least at the time, an extremely rare form of lukemia. The actual cancer - that is, the actual cloned and therefore impotent cells, were the T-gammas. because the cancer was in the T-gammas, which are not in the bone-marrow but which 'bridge' between the bone marrow and the blood (someone is going to come along and correct my medical knowledge, and they are free to do so if they know more than me or can make better explantions than I. I was just the wife of a patient of a new and barely understood cancer, and so many years ago.), we were told that a bone marrow transplant could not help, and for this reason, our children - or, at least, our youngest, the only one that shared my DHs actual bloodtype, were not cross tested as a match. He was treated symptomaticlly.
A lot changes in a decade, in medicine. Have we learned more about bone marrow transplants, what they do, or how to do them? Even if it is more a cure for certain, difficult cancers than for aids, that does not mean it is not a step on the way. The doctors themselves are not making wild crazy claims, simply saying that they might be making progress.
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