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Multithumb found errors on this page: There was a problem loading image C:\wamp\www\images/stories/08_leukemia.jpg  William Ludwig had been diagnosed with leukemia and expected to die from the most common form of the disease. With only weeks to live he signed up to be the first recipient of an experimental treatment at the University of Pennsylvania. The treatment involved taking some of Mr. Ludwig´s own T-Cells (a specific kind of white blood cell) and introducing them to a harmless form of HIV and allowing them to insert new cancer killing genes into them then re-injecting them into Mr. Ludwig. After ten days of nothing Mr. Ludwig contracted a severe fever that nearly killed him but after a few weeks the fevers had subsided, his lymph glands were no longer swollen. Doctors estimate that the treatment had killed 2 lbs of tumors in mere weeks. (Source: shortnews)   Socialize this Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay in touch and receive all of TT updates right in your feed reader
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| Last Updated on 21 September 2011 11:01 |