Measles Virus Puts Woman's Cancer Into Remission

clm1970 sends news that researchers from Mayo Clinic have successfully put a patient's cancer into remission using a modified measles virus. The researchers are quick to note that further trials are needed to determine whether these results are repeatable. Here are the two academic papers. "Multiple myeloma in a 49-year-old woman seemed to disappear after she received an extremely high-dose injection of a measles virus engineered to kill the cancer cells. Multiple myeloma affects immune cells called plasma cells, which concentrate in the soft tissue, or marrow, inside bones. A second woman also with multiple myeloma began responding to the therapy, but her cancer eventually returned. Four other patients who received the high-dose therapy had no response. .. [Dr. Stephen Russell] and colleagues believe the two women who showed some response had few or no circulating measles antibodies, which might eliminate the engineered virus before it has a chance to kill the cancer cells. The therapy will now enter a mid-stage trial to see whether more patients with low circulating antibodies respond to high-doses of the virus, he said."

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GMO!!1!!

[Anonymous Coward]

This has to stop before it gets out of control

Oh just perfect

[hsmith]

How we are going to give adults autism too.

Damnit!

[Anonymous Coward]

So now the MMR vaccine causes cancer, as well as autism?

I Am Legend?

[The_Other_Kelly]

I know what happens now ... Vampires, end of world, bad acting, dead dogs and lots of dodgy special effect monsters.

And Emma Thompson. So not all bad ...

There's only one way this will end.

[russotto]

"...when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."