Promising cancer treatment emerges
A medical breakthrough has occurred as researchers from the University of Ottawa have come up with a way to target cancer cells by injecting the engineered virus, an engineered virus, JX-594, directly into the blood. When trialed on a small number of patients, the virus attacked only tumours without affecting healthy tissue. This is not […]
A medical breakthrough has occurred as researchers from the University of Ottawa have come up with a way to target cancer cells by injecting the engineered virus, an engineered virus, JX-594, directly into the blood. When trialed on a small number of patients, the virus attacked only tumours without affecting healthy tissue.
This is not the first time viruses have been used to attack cancer cells, but up until now, they have been injected directly into tumours only.
