Woods Cross Man's Cancer in Remission Thanks to HIV
WOODS CROSS — Fighting an aggressive and often deadly form of leukemia with the HIV virus? It's an experimental treatment that's giving a Utah family hope for the future.
In early 2012, Marshall Jensen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. At the time, he had only been married to his wife, A.J., for a year.
“They were a young couple. They weren’t married very long. They had a brand new little baby when all of this started,” said Lindsay Wright, who lives in the couple’s Woods Cross neighborhood.
For the last three years, Jensen and his family have traveled around the country for surgeries, treatments and procedures to fight his leukemia. But the cancer returned after several treatments, leaving little hope.
“At one point his goal was just to make it to his 30th birthday,” another neighbor said.
Then Jensen learned about Dr. Carl June and his team of researchers at Penn Medicine. They’ve spent two decades developing a breakthrough experimental treatment that kills cancer in otherwise incurable leukemia patients.
"It felt right; and we didn't know how we were going to get out there, what we were going to do, but it worked,” Jensen said. “By God's grace I was able to come back."
Perhaps even more amazing than the turnaround is what June's therapy uses to fight the cancer: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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