This is potentially good news.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute has just decided to fund multiple human clinical studies to test the reovirus. This naturally occuring virus has a remarkable ability to infect and kill cancer cells, without affecting normal, healthy cells.It appears that almost all of us have a natural immunity to this virus due to it being so pervasive in the environment. However, a cancerous cell does not have the same immune response as a healthy cell, which means that the virus ends up killing the cancer cells and propagating itself to other cancerous cells. Posted by Aubrey at November 4, 2003 07:37 PM | TrackBack