Hunt for HIV cure turns to cancer drugs

According to the Paris Scientific Council, outstanding progress in improving the immune system to treat cancer may help solve AIDS problems.

However, in the field of rapidly emerging immunotherapy, some patients with advanced cancer are seeing complete remission.

Although some experts have already remembered, hope is a similar way to get rid of people living with HIV

For HIV treatment, daily antiretroviral drugs are needed to kill any active virus. If left unchecked, HIV can damage the immune system and cause AIDS.

Currently it is impossible to cure because drugs and the immune system can not detect "potential" HIV hidden in sleep or cells in the body.

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, a Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of HIV, told BBC.

"The molecules expressed by these cells are the same molecules that are expressed on tumor cells.

"Therefore, this raises the question of whether we can develop an AIDS treatment strategy similar to the new treatment in the field of cancer."

Professor Sharon Lewin, director of the Australian Doherty Institute, agreed to learn much from cancer.

They can produce proteins such as PD-L1 on their surface that prevent immune cells from attacking the tumor.

A new type of immunotherapy drug called "checkpoint inhibitor" keeps the immune system fighting and has very important results.

In one trial, one in five patients with advanced melanoma did not show signs of morbidity after immunotherapy

Professor Lewin is starting his research in the laboratory and believes that immunotherapeutics can revitalize the immune system, which is tedious to fight with HIV.

She said: "Some of the immune systems that recognize HIV are often depleting T cells expressing immune checkpoint markers.

"In the laboratory, T cells will restore function even if these cells are subsequently placed in an immunological checkpoint blocker."

She said there is new evidence that these medicines can also activate HIV, these AIDS

Professor Lewin said, "I woke up the virus and wished for the virus to be killed by the [antiretroviral drug]."

In cancer, the immune system can recognize the threat, but not enough to do something about it, but the immune system does not recognize any potential HIV cells at all.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the area is currently "very hot" in cancer.

But he warned: "We have to be careful, we do not think working at cancer will work.

"Even if it's worth investigating, HIV is not so different, I do not want people to think that this is a success in HIV."

Researchers and scientists believe they can find ways to treat AIDS. Like several cancers, we have a lot of knowledge about HIV. Scientists are studying two treatments: functional and disinfective for the treatment of HIV (there is no "natural treatment" or "herbal remedy"). (Because AIDS is not a virus like HIV, it is a definite set of symptoms, there is never a cure for AIDS.) Functional treatment reduces the amount of HIV in the body to an undetectable low level, There are things to do - but it still exists. While some people think antiretroviral therapy is actually a functional treatment, most people believe that functional therapy can suppress the virus without the need for ongoing antiretroviral therapy.

I often hear that scientists are actively looking for ways to treat cancer. But where are they looking for? With another medicine, the treatment of cancer is not easily found. Indeed, there are many cancer therapies that can be used frequently in certain types of cancer. In addition, the 5-year survival rate of many types of cancer patients (including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer) is greatly improved by radical surgery or existing drugs before tumors occur Up to 80% depending on) 100% spread)

How is cancer? Anticancer drugs account for much of the focus of pharmaceutical sales, but none of them will cure cancer. At some point in life, you may spend time and money to find "ways to treat cancer". Please be relieved - no one is trying to find a cure. Everyone is looking for drugs. A medicine does not cure the disease. At least not important. Important drugs are the best-selling drugs, not drugs to cure. There are many people who cure cancer. However, our "drug-driven system" treats them as "anecdotal evidence" and ignores them. There is no one actively researching what happened after cancer has healed, and publishing information. It is not a pharmaceutical company.