Colon, lung, breast, ovarian, pancreatic — almost a million people will be diagnosed with one of these cancers in the coming year. Can a virus fight them?
Almost everyone knows someone who has battled cancer. Standard care involves chemo and radiation, medication, and immunotherapies. Now, for the first time ever, clinical trials are underway testing a new virus that targets deadly cancer cells and wipes them out.
Colon, lung, breast, ovarian, pancreatic — almost a million people will be diagnosed with one of these cancers in the coming year.
“People over the decades have been trying to find viruses to kill certain types of cancers for a long time,” said City of Hope surgical oncologist, Yuman Fong, MD. “What we decided was that rather than doing that, why don’t we just find viruses that kill any type of cancer… Continue reading.