Does Herpes Cause Brain Cancer? [News]
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 09:28
in Health & Medicine
Editor's Note: This story will be published in the next issue of Scientific American Mind.The deadliest and most common type of brain cancer has a strange bedfellow: cytomegalovirus, a kind of herpes present in about 80 percent of the U.S. population. Now scientists are exploiting this coincidence to treat the cancer with a vaccine that targets the virus and slows tumor regrowth. [More]