Cancer Drugs to Defeat HIV?

University of Minnesota researchers say they have found a potential new treatment for HIV, using a mixture of two anti-cancer drugs that are already on the market.

In lab experiments, the two drugs – gemcitabine and decitabine – were able to stop the AIDS virus by causing it to “mutate itself to death,” the researchers said.

The discovery, announced by the university Monday, has not been tried in people yet. But the researchers say the study is encouraging because it’s a new way of attacking the virus and because the drugs are not experimental – they’ve already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating other diseases.

2010 Star Tribune

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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 27 August 2010
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