Medications
Fit to burst: How cancer-exploding viruses are changing the game
You awake in the middle of the night from a nightmare.
Feb 10, 2020
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News tagged with oncolytic viruses
Oncology & Cancer
Strain of common cold virus could revolutionize treatment of bladder cancer
A strain of the common cold virus has been found to potentially target, infect and destroy cancer cells in patients with bladder cancer, a new study in the medical journal Clinical Cancer Research reports. No trace of the ...
Jul 5, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Altering cancer metabolism helps treatments attack tumors
Restricting the ability of cancer cells to metabolise sugar could make oncolytic viruses more effective at attacking them, suggests a study published today in the journal Cancer Research.
Nov 28, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Novel technique can potentially improve success of ovarian cancer treatment, study reveals
Novel Technique Can Potentially Improve Success of Ovarian Cancer Treatment, Study Reveals
Oct 30, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
New cancer vaccine platform a potential tool for tailored and efficacious targeted cancer therapy
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have reported PeptiENV, a cancer vaccine platform that can be used to improve the therapeutic efficacy of oncolytic enveloped viruses currently in clinical use. With the help of this ...
Oct 5, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Spying on the virus: Development to increase effectiveness of viral cancer therapy
Scientists have learned how to observe the processes of oncolytic viruses in cancer cells in real time. For the first time ever, a group of scientists from NUST MISIS and the University of Calgary (Canada) has applied intravital ...
Sep 10, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Discovery means individualized ovarian, brain cancer therapies
Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway—thought to be defective in cancer—is a key player in determining the effectiveness of measles virus oncolytic cancer treatment in ovarian ...
May 16, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer-killing virus acts by alerting immune system
A new UC San Francisco study has shown that a cancer-killing ("oncolytic") virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine—in addition to killing some cancer cells directly, the virus alerts the immune ...
Feb 13, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Could viruses take cancer immunotherapy to the next level?
Immunotherapy, which helps the body's immune system attack cancer, has revolutionized treatment for cancers such as melanoma and leukemia. However, many other kinds of cancer remain resistant. A new study led by researchers ...
Jan 3, 2018
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Genetics
German research advances in cancer and blood disorders reported in human gene therapy
Virotherapy capable of destroying tumor cells and activating anti-tumor immune reactions, and the use of engineered hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to deliver replacement genes that have the potential to cure blood diseases ...
Oct 18, 2017
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