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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

A Massive Dose of Measles Virus Wiped Out This Woman's Cancer:

Stacy Erholtz didn't have many options to treat her blood cancer left when she agreed to being injected with the equivalent of 10 million doses of measles vaccine. Hours later, she was vomiting and feverish. Months later, her cancer was gone. This landmark result-if replicated in larger clinical trials-could open the door to new therapy that uses viruses to target cancer cells. Viral therapy is an old idea with some success in mice, but this is the first clearly documented result of it working in humans. "It's a game changer," one of the researchers told the Washington Post.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/ 2014/05/15/womans-cancer-killed-by-measles-virus-i n-unprecedented-trial/ [washingtonpost.com]

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025 -6196(14)00332-2/fulltext [mayoclinicproceedings.org]

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