Viruses Could Target Hard-to-Kill Cancer Cells

[Hot Mega]

For the first time, researchers have shown viruses can be delivered through a person's bloodstream to infect cancer cells without infecting other tissues, according to a new study.

Once inside a tumor cell, the genetically engineered virus can replicate and spread to other cancer cells while it leaves normal cells alone. In the study, patients experienced few side effects.

The results mean that "we have new approach to cancer treatment that would be much more selective" than current treatments, said study researcher John Bell, a senior scientist at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada. Such a treatment could be particularly helpful for treating metastatic cancers, which are cancers that have spread throughout the body.

The study was small, including just 23 patients, and as an early-stage clinical trial, it set a goal of testing the safety of the treatment rather than seeing whether the viruses could kill cancer cells or help patients live longer.

'Die Hard' with a virus at link....
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[Ulysses31]

Is this the same thing?

Cancer-stricken grandfather given just 12 months to live sees tumours killed in TWO DAYS after breakthrough treatment

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ks-tumours-killed-TWO-DAYS.html#ixzz1WpRqfLXN

 

[Hot Mega]

Is this the same thing?

Cancer-stricken grandfather given just 12 months to live sees tumours killed in TWO DAYS after breakthrough treatment

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ks-tumours-killed-TWO-DAYS.html#ixzz1WpRqfLXN

:dunno: You know me U...I'm like Joe Friday...just the facts. I didn't go into the fluff or background stuff..:o

 

[Ravenholm]

Good news indeed. The better treatment we have for this disease the more people can be saved. And in that we wont need to lose some of our heroes in the process. Ronnie James Dio for instance. Stomach cancer got him in the end. A cure for cancer would have saved him and he'd still be rocking hard in his 60s like he was already doing right up til the end. Unlike some of those punk mainstreamers who will be long gone from the music scene by the time they hit their 60s. Ronnie boy had over 4 decades under his belt in the music industry. Not many these days that are still active can say they have that or will ever have that.

 

[L3ggy]

What are the odds that it'll mutate and target other tissues and cells?

 

[Hot Mega]

What are the odds that it'll mutate and target other tissues and cells?

That would be an absolute concern as a mutated super bug would be worse than the cancer.

Theoretically these eggheads discovering this will have done the genetic workup on the bug before they deployed it and have some reasonable idea what antibiotics could corral it.

But you never know....

 

[D-rock]

As long as it didn't spread to other people even fatal mutated viruses are only marginally worse if it's given to somebody that is already in the late stages of terminal cancer in a lot of cases. At some point there comes to be little to lose.

 

[Hot Mega]

As long as it didn't spread to other people even fatal mutated viruses are only marginally worse if it's given to somebody that is already in the late stages of terminal cancer in a lot of cases. At some point there comes to be little to lose.

That's what happens though with bugs. Part of their life cycle is to get to new hosts. In that sense....a communicable super bug outbreak is infinitely worse than dealing with cancer.

 

[LukeEl]

Why not, this makes a lot of sense. And I know it is not fully approved, but at least it gives someone with cancer a fighting chance, and I am all for that.

 

[Galactic]

Damn that's cool. :surprise: