Patient's own immune cells may blunt viral therapy for brain cancer

Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 20:00 in Health & Medicine

Doctors now use cancer-killing viruses to treat some patients with lethal, fast-growing brain tumors. Clinical trials show that these therapeutic viruses are safe but less effective than expected. A new study shows that the patient's own immune system quickly works to eliminate the anticancer virus, and it discovered how this happens.

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