First successful study of virus attack on cancer

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It’s a new weapon in the arsenal of cancer fighting treatments: utilizing genetically modified viruses to invade cancer cells and destroy them from the inside. Now scientists have found that stage IIIb to IV melanoma patients treated with a modified cold sore (herpes) virus had improved survival.


SOURCE: Top Health News — ScienceDaily – Read entire story here.

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