A Toronto man is set to be the first Canadian to be cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant.
The 62-year-old patient was diagnosed with HIV in 1999 and was not expected to survive longer than six months as he was also battling a rare and aggressive cancer—Stage 4 Burkitt lymphoma—which had spread to his brain and lymph nodes.
The patient’s diagnosis came at the time of the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, also known as ART, which can stop HIV from reproducing and extend the average life expectancies for patients to a near normal length…read more.
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