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A Toronto man could soon join a small club of people in the world considered cured of HIV following a bone marrow transplant to treat cancer that left the immunodeficiency virus in remission. The 62-year-old man, identified by the health officials only as the “Toronto patient,” had developed acute myelogenous leukemia in 2021 and underwent a bone marrow transplant at University Health Network’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.The procedure involved donor stem cells that were selected because they contained a rare genetic mutation called “delta-32.”According to the UHN, Unity Health Toronto and University of Toronto, the CCR5 gene encodes a protein…

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