Doctors N Health Land

Cure Of Leukaemia
A 42-year-old patient who suffered from leukaemia and HIV seems to have been cured of both diseases after a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a genetic resistance to the AIDS virus, report doctors at the Charite-Medical University in Berlin. The patient has not been taking anti-retroviral drugs after the transplant two years ago. But doctors warn bone marrow transplants can hardly be adopted as a standard mode of treatment for HIV. Donors with the genetic mutation that is resistant to the HIV virus are rare.

GREENS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER
Women with a family history of breast cancer have a 40 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer even if they test negative for two genetic mutations-BRCA1 and BRCA2. Canadian researchers studied 1,492 women from 365 families who were tested negative for BRCA1 and BRCA2. These women had a strong family history of either two or more cases of breast caner among close relatives under the age of 50, or three cases among close relatives at any age. BRCA1 and BRCA2 account for 85 per cent of all familial breast cancer and it put women at an 80 per cent increased risk of breast cancer.