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MAYO CLINIC ON XMRV: March 04th Talk in Sacramento

hensue

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Yes since I am xmrv positive and husband is hepatitis c positive. I keep wondering if there is an association I am not one of your brilliant Science tech minds. He would have never none if his blood test had not come back with liver enzymes high.
I am neg for hep c and so is family.

Thanks you smart ones for keeping us updated.
Cort Thank you for this board.
 
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Thank you, Doogle!

They did a human prostate cancer study. 159 samples of prostate cancer tissue (grade 5-7), and 201 controls were tested for XMRV. 4.5% were XMRV positive in PC tissue. 2.5% were XMRV positive in prostate tissue controls .

Is this further evidence, then, that XMRV is present in a few percent of healthy controls? It seems to me to fit in better with the Science paper and the Japanese study than with the UK and Dutch papers, but maybe I a missing something since people are not commenting on it. I know this was tissue and the other papers are blood tests. I dont remember if the previous prostate papers (Silverman etc) also tested healthy controls.
 

hensue

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Doogle
Thanks so much!
What did he mean about the inderect association of hepatitis c and H pylori?
 

flybro

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I have a friends that's hep c, and we have quite a few symptoms in common.

Thank you for this Doogle, and nice to meet you.
 

Doogle

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Is this further evidence, then, that XMRV is present in a few percent of healthy controls? It seems to me to fit in better with the Science paper and the Japanese study than with the UK and Dutch papers, but maybe I a missing something since people are not commenting on it. I know this was tissue and the other papers are blood tests. I dont remember if the previous prostate papers (Silverman etc) also tested healthy controls.

Yes, I believe it supports that there is some range of asymptomatic people positive with XMRV. There could also be some ME/CFS patients included in the normal prostate control samples. It would be an interesting retrospective study.

I don't believe the previous prostate papers tested controls.