Engineered Measles Vaccine Wipes Out Woman's Cancer
"Here we have got a therapy that you give once, and the outcome can be long-term remission of cancer," said lead author Stephen Russell.
Via AFP:
A potent dose of engineered measles virus has been shown for the first time to have completely wiped out a woman's cancer, US scientists reported this week.
"Here we have got a therapy that you give once, and the outcome can be long-term remission of cancer," said lead author Stephen Russell, a hematologist who co-developed the therapy described Wednesday in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal.
"We believe it can become a single shot cure."
The 49-year-old patient was diagnosed with a kind of bone marrow cancer called multiple myeloma. She had a tumor on her forehead and the cancer...