Anonymous ID: 71bd9c June 26, 2018, 7:51 a.m. No.1910138   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0237

Lots of medical "breakthroughs" lately, hmmmm…

 

Enemy turned ally: Poliovirus is used to fight brain tumors

 

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically modified poliovirus, which helped their bodies attack the cancer, doctors report.

It was the first human test of this and it didn't help most patients or improve median survival. But many who did respond seemed to have long-lasting benefit: About 21 percent were alive at three years versus 4 percent in a comparison group of previous brain tumor patients.

Similar survival trends have been seen with some other therapies that enlist the immune system against different types of cancer. None are sold yet for brain tumors.

"This is really a first step," and doctors were excited to see any survival benefit in a study testing safety, said one researcher, Duke University's Dr. Annick Desjardins.

Preliminary results were to be discussed Tuesday at a conference in Norway and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/enemy-turned-ally-poliovirus-used-110117288.html