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Senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us from atlanta. elizabeth, this is di-- i mean, this is remarkable. i was just watching the movie, "queen," and was just brought back to this time when this was just such a tragic epidemic. tell us about what has happened here. >> exactly, when so many of us lost friends and loved ones and family members to hiv. so whats happened here, poppy, is really remarkable. this is now the second patient who not only had hiv, but who also had cancer. and...

Two patients, the berlin patient 12 years ago, and now the london patient, both in addition to having hiv had cancer. one had leukemia and one had lymphoma. so doctors used stem cells to treat the cancer. they said, lets give them a stem cell transplant from someone with a rare genetic mutation that makes them immune to hiv. it worked. they are no longer taking anti-retro viral drugs. they do not have hiv. people use words like apparently cured is the term a lot of doctors are using. it is impor...

Is set to expire at the end of the year. doctors report that the second person ever is believed to have been cured of hiv. the science journal nature says the anonymous patient has been hiv free since the procedure in 2016. like the first patient that was cured, the so-called london patient had both cancer and hiv. he was receiving stem cells after chemotherapy to wipe out the cancer. the big difference though was in the new cells donated to him, they had a mutation with hiv immunity. presid...

A genetic counseling so that someone can explain to you what these tests mean and also you know you can one can discuss the pedigree and can see if this is really. falls into the same category of the type of cancer that you think is suspicious for genetic cause or not and other tests very accurate the tests themselves are very accurate if your i test you i can tell you whether you have a mutation or not what we cannot tell exactly is when and two and you know really if you will get the disease o...

Colon cancer but they go regularly to get screened the others dont have the mutation thank god. knowing you have an elevated risk of disease influences the way you live regardless of whether the disease ever manifests so its wise to think carefully before deciding to go through with genetic testing. if you thought just having one sees the head of the department of medical genetics of the brain injury t thanks for having me today we just saw in the report a patient who suffered from colon cancer ...

Is younger than fifty and that for example would be something suspicious so if there are several of family members who have affected by say colon cancer up breast cancer would you advise to get tested i would advise that you get a good genetic counseling so that someone can explain to you what these tests mean and also you know. well you can one can discuss the pedigree and can see if this is really. falls into the same category of the type of cancer that you think is suspicious for genetic caus...

When they heard about the results his four children also chose to take the test. it turns out that two of my sons are also at risk of getting colon cancer but they go regularly to get screened the others dont have the mutation thank god. you know when you have an elevated risk of disease influences the way you live regardless of whether the disease ever manifests so its wise to think carefully before deciding to go through with genetic testing. if you thought just of them would seize the head of...

Was on the most that you could actually deliver to anybody, and the pulmonologist said you need to find a good hospice. she is not going to come home again. so my doctor at kennestone, dr. steve mccune, he sent off for a genetic mutation test and it came back that i had a rare type of lung cancer called ross 1. that is the mutation that was driving my lung cancer. >> you now take just a pill, is that right? >> just a pill. >> is this still a clinical trial? >> it was a clinical trial until novem...

You have this new drug to target that mutation. you do have to do the question n sequencing. the drug is expensive. >> it is shockingly expensive. >> how much? >> $32,000 a month. >> does your insurance cover that? >> it will depend. some insurance companies are going to cover this. it is a small population of people that are going to be candidates for this, two to three thousands who have these mutations, so it is not a huge number. but we are seeing a brand-new way of looking at these cancers....

Development. >> i think this is the way cancer treatments are going to go. this is a big deal. because people have been talking about this for a while, but instead of calling cancers a breast cancer or a prostate cancer or whatever, they will start calling them by what really is causing the cancer, which is the mutation. there is a certain mutation that causes that cancer to grow. it doesnt matter where it is in the body. you dont treat the tissue. you are treating the mutation itself. and i thi...