The world is connected

The world is connected.   When I was a teen, if someone told me that I would one day:
a.  benefit from billions of dollars of the AIDS research.
b.  wish I have AIDS instead of another more deadly disease (say, breast cancer)

I'd not have believed it.   But here I am, 20 years later, both happened.    Breast cancer patients benefit from AIDS research because of all the knowledge we gained about the immune system, and how to treat immune compromised patients.   I do wish I have AIDS rather than breast cancer, because AIDS patients are closer to a cure than patients with metastatic breast cancer.

This new upenn study proposes, "daclizumab, already used for kidney transplantation, would be effective in depleting regulatory T cells (Tregs) and restoring the immune system's ability to fight tumors": ,
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2012/05/fda/

Linking back to another study of failed immune system:
http://killerboob.blogspot.com/2012/05/thin-red-line-around-breast-cancer.html

The plot is thickening!   A link to the small early stage clinical trial:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00573495?term=daclizumab+breast+cancer&rank=1