new ways to treat cancer

An Ottawa-based research team has developed a virus that is showing promise as a new way of attacking and shrinking cancer tumours while leaving healthy tissue alone.

 

 

It's early days in the still-experimental field of therapeutic cancer viruses, called oncolytic viruses. But this new study from researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa advances the field a little further by showing that the virus is safe in most patients.

 

For the study, researchers recruited 23 advanced cancer patients whose cancer had spread to multiple organs. All had failed to respond to the usual treatments and all were in the final stages of the disease.

Read more about it here.

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110831/cancer-tumour-virus-ottawa-110831/20110831/?hub=CalgaryHome

Looks like they found a new way to treat cancer that is 100 times better.

Edited August 31, 201114 yr by nec209