Scientists led by Dr. Yuman Fong, discover a virus that kills all known types of cancer
In what can be called a positive development, a group of scientists may have come close to getting a cancer medicine by developing a viral drug that could have the potential to kill more resistant cancer cells and shrink tumors. If this works, it could well be a scientific breakthrough that doctors and patients have been longing for.
A group of researchers led by Dr. Fong, a hepatobiliary cancer surgeon, has proposed the design of a new virus based on cowpox, which has shown the ability to kill cancer cells.
The Australian biotech company Imugene, has created a certain kind of viral strain (smallpox) that shows a possible benefit in completely curing cancer. The treatment, which has been called 'CF33', promises to kill everything type of cancer cells in a Petri dish and has also been claimed to kill or completely shrink tumors in mice. Studies and trials are recently being carried out to validate the developments.
Among the first studies on the effectiveness of the treatment plan are patients diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, lung cancer, bladder, bowel and gastric cancer. Melanoma patients could also be diagnosed. In this way, researchers could identify where treatment is most effective.
How does the strain that kills cancer cells work?
For a cure, patients would have to be injected with the strain directly into tumors to see the procedure in action.
Professor Fong said that cowpox, which has been termed a harmless virus, tests have found that this new and improved strain of the virus could help kill cancer cells from the root.
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The bacillus should then alert the immune system that there are cancer cells in the body; This will cause the immune cells to find and kill the malignant cells.
In the past, although experts have not worked to find a particular cure like this, several projects have been aimed at the effectiveness of remedies and elective therapies in the treatment of cancer.