AN American man who was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer two years ago is now amazingly in remission thanks to a revolutionary treatment that involved receiving an infusion of the virus that causes AIDS.

    Marshall Jensen, of Utah, was one of 30 leukemia patients to undergo a trial treatment at Penn Medicine recently, in which white blood cells are implanted with a harmless form of HIV programmed to target and kill cancer.

    The 30-year-old married father of one is now cancer-free for the first time in years.

    Jensen, wife Amanda and their young son Kezman have been travelling around the country ever since he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2012, searching for an effective treatment for his cancer.

    Dr. Carl June and his team of physicians at Penn Medicine have spent two decades working on a breakthrough experimental treatment using the HIV virus.

    The connection between leukemia and HIV was first discovered in 2006, when an HIV-positive man named Timothy Wood was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. After receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation, Wood’s cancer went into remission and the HIV disappeared from his system making him the first man to ever be fully cured of the virus. (SD-Agencies)