Cancer Therapy Goes Viral: Progress Is Made Tackling Tumors with Viruses

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

The adapted virus that immunized hundreds of millions of people against smallpox has now been enlisted in the war on cancer. Vaccinia poxvirus joins a herpesvirus and a host of other pathogens on a growing list of engineered viruses entering late-stage human testing against cancer. [More] Cancer - Smallpox - Virus - Vaccinia - Health

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