Health conference: Two cancer patients in Boston HIV-free after receiving bone marrow transplants


KUALA LUMPUR: Two cancer patients in Boston, United States, who were also HIV-positive, no longer show signs of the virus in the blood after receiving bone marrow transplants to treat their lymphoma, it was revealed during a health conference here Wednesday.

The patients, suffering from cancer for years, received bone marrow transplants after undergoing extensive treatment previously.

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