Re:Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
by adinb on Thursday May 15, 2014 @02:13PM
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In the video at the mayo clinic site they talk a bit more about patient 2. While not all tumors were destroyed, they were fully mapped due to compounds from the thyroid being attached to the virus, implying that localized treatment would then be possible.
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
Editorial Article: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(14)0...
Re:Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
by lingben on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:03AM
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wait, what? I'm not an oncologist but I read that muscles are the one tissue or place in our body which does not get cancer - this has to do with the way muscles are so 'greedy' for blood vessels that they do not allow angiogenesis to cancer cells.
Re:Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in trial
by robinh on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:10AM
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Sadly not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma
They mentioned the second patient in the article:
The trial included two patients. Russell said the treatment worked in Erholtz, whose tumors were mostly in her bone marrow. However, it was unsuccessful in the other patient, whose tumors were mainly in her leg muscles, the Star-Tribune reported. He said more research is needed to know how the nature of the tumor affects the virus.