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7 year old cured of leukaemia !

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PUBLISHED: 06:32 EST, 11 December 2012
UPDATED: 13:50 EST, 11 December 2012

The cancer girl cured by the HIV virus: Seven-year-old makes extraordinary recovery after U.S. doctors re-wire her immune system to destroy leukaemia cells

Emily had been fighting leukaemia for two years but relapsed this spring

Her parents put her forward for a clinical trial as it was 'the only option left'

'We had 48 hours to make a decision or Emily could have started having organ failure', father said

Therapy, known as CTL019, used disabled form of HIV to reprogramme her immune system to kill cancer cells

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2246312/Girl-7-beats-leukaemia-revolutionary-treatment-using-HIV-virus-wire-immune-system.html#ixzz2EqFDGeKi

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