article_snippet.sent: The patient in a single patient case study had both HIV and myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
article_snippet.sent: the bone marrow produces white blood cells, including those that help to control HIV.
article_snippet.sent: To treat the patient's myeloma, the patient bone marrow was completely removed and replaced using the patient own stem cells.
article_snippet.sent: When his bone marrow was removed, the immune system was severely impaired, allowing the HIV to re-activate and replicate.
article_snippet.sent: This is a single patient study, but nevertheless This is often the unusual patients who help us to understand the HIV disease process.'
article_snippet.sent: the patient was not given any anti-HIV drugs, due to concerns about side-effects affecting the patient cancer treatment.