Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in unprecedented trial

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Woman’s cancer killed by measles virus in unprecedented trial
washingtonpost.com ^ | May 15 at 1:24 am | Lindsey Bever

Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2014 9:03:39 PM by BenLurkin

Russell said he and his team had engineered the virus to make it more suitable for cancer therapy. And, after just one dose of it, Erholtz’s cancer went into remission. She has been completely cleared of the disease, Russell wrote in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Though, in this trial, the treatments were successful on only one of the two patients.

And Tanios Bekaii-Saab, a researcher at James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Ohio, said the study must be confirmed in large randomized clinical trials — where many hopes get dashed, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

“Unless we get to the third stage of development, we are cautiously optimistic,” he said.

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