Relapse rates dropped to zero after an intensive regimen of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant, but improvement is greater with lower baseline disability.
Before now, only two people, both men, had been cured of HIV through bone marrow transplant. This is the first case of a woman, and someone cured using cord blood instead of bone marrow transplant.
Two close colleagues at New York s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, world leaders in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) have published their 100th peer-reviewed paper as coauthors.