The first man cured of AIDS .. in the last stage of cancer
He is fighting the American Timothy Ray Brown, who in 2008 was the first person to be cured of HIV, but this time it is not the AIDS virus, but the man known as the "Berlin patient" reaching the final stage of cancer.
Activist and writer Mark King, in an article he wrote last Tuesday on his blog, quoted Tim Hoffgen, Timothy's friend, as saying that the latter "does not die from AIDS."
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"AIDS has not appeared in Timothy's blood" since 2008, King said, when "it no longer exists."
"Now, it's leukemia," he added.
Oh my God, I hate cancer. ”
Hoffgen said Timothy Ray Brown, 54, "is someone who cannot help but love him because he is nice."
The anti-cancer treatments were very harsh.
Sometimes I wonder if it is worse than the disease itself. ”
Mark King indicated that Brown is receiving palliative care at home in Palm Springs, California.
"I will continue to fight until I can no longer fight," King quoted Brown as saying.
In one of the photos, Brown appeared to be bedridden, thin and without hair.
Brown was living in Berlin in 1995 when he learned that he had the virus.
And in 2006 it was found that he had leukemia.
To treat him, his doctor at the University of Berlin implanted for him stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that would provide him with natural resistance to HIV, and he hoped that the transplant would cure both diseases at the same time.
The doctor was forced to perform two transplants, with the difficulty and seriousness of such operations, but the bet succeeded in 2008 when Timothy Ray Brown cured the two diseases.
The announcement of this development did not refer to his name at the time, but was satisfied with describing him as "Berlin patient".
Brown agreed in 2010 to reveal his name publicly, and has since become a public figure, giving statements, giving media interviews, giving lectures and participating in conferences.
"I am the living proof that a cure from AIDS is possible," he told AFP in 2012.
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