Ravindra Gupta, lead author of the study published in The Lancet HIV, said the new test results were 'even more remarkable' and likely demonstrated the patient was cured.
Viral tests of Castillejo's cerebral fluid, intestinal tissue and lymphoid tissue more than two years after stopping antiretroviral treatment showed no active infection.
Castillejo's treatment was a"last resort" as his blood cancer would likely have killed him without intervention, according to Gupta. "You'd have to weigh up the fact that there's a 10% mortality rate from doing a stem-cell transplant against what the risk of death would be if we did nothing," he said.
This is a unique position to be in, a unique and very humbling position," he told The New York Times.
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